Coldfusion returntype behaviour in flex

Posted At : April 8, 2007 10:42 PM | Posted By : Toby
Related Categories: Flex,Actionscript,Tech,Coldfusion

Just a gotcha for anyone else who runs into it - I had an issue today in retrieving data from a remoteobject call in flex. My flex code looked like this:

MyRO.methodName(args);
tempObj : * = MyRO.methodName.lastResult;
for (var i in tempObj) {
result_text.text += i;
}

Now all I was trying to do at this stage was verify that the correct data was coming through, but for some reason it appeared that the struct I was expecting from coldfusion was being sent properly, but it was being converted into an AS object with no keys! For example, the cf generated struct had a key called EmailAddress and from the above code, neither tempObj.EmailAddress or tempObj.EMAILADDRESS were valid.

What fixed it was changing the returntype on my cfc. I had had returntype="struct" on it, but I changed it to "any" and everything worked fine. Not 100% sure what it's doing differently or exactly what type it *is* passing but it seems to work now.

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