Question

I am very new to flex and flash builder. What I am trying to do is connect to a http data service and retrieve data from it.

All the tutorials I have found go through the process of setting up the data service and taking the response and putting it in a grid.

Wheat I am not understanding (and it is probably really simple.) is how to take the response and instead of putting it into a data grid, just store the results in variables for later use.

If someone can help me get going with this, it would be very much appreciated.

Answer 1

first create a variable for you to store the results:

public var results : ArrayCollection;

Then in you result handler, just store the values:

protected function resultHandler(event:ResultEvent):void{
  results = new ArrayCollection(event.result as Array);
}