I am using Flex Builder 3 to develop my first application that will communicate with a server that has many operations, so many in fact it is overwhelming and I am grouping them together into classes that will expose the operations and also manage some client side meta data. I am calling these classes “server proxies” because they are technically similar to a proxy class in WCF. I would want to organize these classes where I can do things like the below where Authentication is a class, and ServerProxies is some feature of the language that allows me to group that class with other classes in the ServerProxies category, or subcatagories such as the Geography subcategory:
ServerProxies.Authentication.AddLoginSuccesfulListener(onLoginSuccessful);
ServerProxies.Authentication.SubmitCredentials(someParaemetersHere);
ServerProxies.Geography.Querying.GetAllTiles(someMoreParameters);
ServerProxies.Geography.Querying.MeasureTwoPoints(pointA,pointB);
ServerProxies.Geography.Display.RenderMapExtent(topLeftPoint,bottomRightPoint);
This example is kind of trivialized because some of these operations probably wouldn’t go through a server, but that is not the topic at hand. (just had to say that before someone gets off on a tangent and flames me over some imaginary code)
*So my question is, what language feature of Action Script 3 would allow me to create such categories?
In C# it would have been a namespace, but namespaces in Action Script seem to be more like custom access modifiers that apply to methods and properties, rather than entire classes.
You have to use packages, in preforms the same task as namespaces in C#.
You can read more about it here:
http://www.foundation-flash.com/tutorials/packages/