Re: ArrayCollection Does Not Show Items In Order When Passed to .NET WebService

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> Hi Sam,
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> Care to show some examples? I am parsing the arrayCollection into an
> ArrayList on .NET.  This is particularly not too appealing since I just
> discovered that for example, if one of the objects in the arraycollection
> would have an empty string value, the number of items inside the array is
> not reflected properly in .NET.
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> Like:
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> private var arrR:ArrayCollection = new ArrayCollection([{ID:"001",
> Value:"Select"},
>                                                         {ID:"002",
> Value:"Choose"},
>                                                         {ID:"003",
> Value:""},]);
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> When I pass this var arrR into a .NET webservice and delegate it to an
> ArrayList, the items in the array list will have one of the arrays only
> containing 1 item (instead of 2).
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> Adding to my problem is the fact that the arrays inside the array list when
> read in .NET should have the object ID and Value be in order but they are
> not.  This is further true when there are many items in the array
> collection.  Sometimes, the first item becomes the last one in the array
> list, and sometimes the order is not well.
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> In any case, I am finding a solution on how I would be able to pass an
> ArrayCollection to .NET and be able to parse it properly.
>
> Thanks.
>
> ________________________________
> From: Sam Lai <samuel.lai@...>
> To: flexcoders@...
> Sent: Thursday, 2 July, 2009 15:46:58
> Subject: Re: [flexcoders] ArrayCollection Does Not Show Items In Order When
> Passed to .NET WebService
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> How is it being parsed in .NET? You can parse it into a hashtable, or
> better yet, use a pre-defined object.
>
> Not sure why the order is different, but it is probably fragile to
> rely on the order in this case.
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> 2009/7/2 Angelo Anolin <angelo_anolin@ yahoo.com>:
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>> Hi FlexCoders,
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>> I have an array collection which I am populating as follows:
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>> var oTemp:Object;
>> var xl:XMLList = _xmlData.children( );
>> var i:int;
>> for(i = 0; i < xl.length(); i++)
>> {
>>  oTemp = {ID_TAG:xl[i] .ID.text( ), CAT_TAG:xl[i] .CAT.text( ),
>> DET_TAG:xl[i] .DET.text( ), REP_DATE_TAG: xl[i].REP_ DATE.text( ),
>> IND_TAG:xl[i] .IND.text( )};
>>  arrDP.addItem( oTemp);
>> }
>> Now, when I pass back this Array Collection back into a web service, the
>> fields are not in order as I have added them into the array collection.
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>> I am expecting that in my Web Service, when I parse this arraycollection
>> (via arraylist), I would be getting the same order of columns as I have
>> added them, i.e. the first array in the array list would have element 0 to
>> be the value I placed in the ID.
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>> Since the arraylist does not have the field tag (represented by ID_TAG,
>> DET_TAG, CAT_TAG, etc..), it becomes a trial and error (hit and miss) on
>> my
>> part since I can only reference the value via the index on the array.
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>> Now, how would I be able to include the tags inside array collection such
>> that when I read them as an array list in my .NET webservice, I know which
>> element I am referring to in a particular index.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Angelo
>>
>>
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