Question

I am trying to understand the way the AsyncToken works in actionscript. How can I call a remote service and ensure that a specific parameter is available in the result or fault event functions? I think it is the async functionality I want to use.

The following code will hopefully explain what I am trying to do. Feel free to modify the code block as your explanation.

Thanks.

public function testSerivceCall(data:Object, callBackCommand:String):void
{
    // Assume callBackCommand == "FOO";
    // How can I pass in callBackCommand as a parameter to the result or fault events?
    // How do I create an async token here?

    var remoteObject:RemoteObject;
    remoteObject = new RemoteObject();
    remoteObject.destination = "zend";
    remoteObject.source = "MyService";
    remoteObject.endpoint = "http://example.com/service";
    remoteObject.test.addEventListener(ResultEvent.RESULT, _handleTestResult);
    remoteObject.test.addEventListener(FaultEvent.FAULT, _handleTestFault);
    remoteObject.test(data);
}

private function _handleTestResult( event:ResultEvent ) : void 
{ 
    // How do I get the async token value?
    // How can I get the value of callBackCommand in this code block?

    if (callBackCommand == "FOO")
    { 
        // do something related to "FOO"
    }
    else
    {
        // do something else with the result event
    }


} 

private function _handleTestFault( event:FaultEvent ) : void 
{ 
    // How do I get the async token value?
    // How can I get the value of callBackCommand in this code block?
} 

An edit to make this question more clear:

Assume I make the following method call somewhere in my code:

testSerivceCall(personObject, "LoginCommand");

How do I get access to the actual string “LoginCommand” inside the _handleTestResult function block?

The reason I want to do this is because I want to dynamically call back certain functions and hand off the result data to specific commands that I know ahead of time when I am making the service call.

I am just having a time grokking the AsyncToken syntax and functionality.

Answer 1

If you want to access the properties used during the remote call (parameters to the call and/or AsycToken), you can make use of closures. Just define the result event handler inside the calling method as a closure. It can then access any variable in the calling function.

public function testSerivceCall(data:Object, callBackCommand:String):void
{
    var _handleTestResult:Function = function( event:ResultEvent ) : void 
    { 
        // token is visible here now
        if (callBackCommand == "FOO")
        { 
            // do something related to "FOO"
        }
        else
        {
            // do something else with the result event
        }
    }

    var remoteObject:RemoteObject;
    remoteObject = new RemoteObject();
    remoteObject.destination = "zend";
    remoteObject.source = "MyService";
    remoteObject.endpoint = "http://example.com/service";
    remoteObject.test.addEventListener(ResultEvent.RESULT, _handleTestResult);
    remoteObject.test.addEventListener(FaultEvent.FAULT, _handleTestFault);
    var token = remoteObject.test(data);
}