Question

I would like to dynamically invoke a Class‘s Property via a String. In the following code, I can dynamically invoke a Class‘s Function via a String.

var myClass:Class = getDefinitionByName("myPackage.MyClass") as Class;
myClass["myStaticMethod"]();

where MyClass is defined as:

package myPackage {
    public class MyClass {
         public function MyClass() {}
         public function myMethod():void {};
         public static function myStaticMethod():void {};
         public static function get myProperty():Object { return null; }
    }
}

However, a Property, such as MyClass.myProperty is not a Function. So,

var myClass:Class = getDefinitionByName("myPackage.MyClass") as Class;
myClass["myProperty"]();

throws an error: TypeError: Error #1006: value is not a function because myProperty is not a Function.

Is there any way to do this dynamically via Strings?

Thanks for the help.

Answer 1

To solve this issue, I simply needed to remove the () from the code. That is, the new code looks like:

var myClass:Class = getDefinitionByName("myPackage.MyClass") as Class;
myClass["myProperty"]; // This works.