Extracting Array of objects from web service

Question

After a couple days of head banging I now have a webservice
call executing and I am trying to extract / create a class from the
ResultEvent:
If the xml returned from the web service is:
<people>
<person name="Mike" />
<person name="Dave" />
</people>
and the class is:
class Person
public var Name:String;
The result event is:
private function doResults(result:ResultEvent):void
// how do I create an array of Person objects from result, I
would also like to know how to create a typed array something like
class PersonList if possible. I just need the raw how to loop the
result and set the values on the class
Thanks,
Mike

Answer 1

Well I wound up with just trial and error until I got it
working, Im sure this will be improved as I go, but it's enough to
press on with the app for now, this code is in the result function
and result is the ResultEvent wich appears to be an array of
generic objects representing the objects returned by the service.
This in no way uses FDS and is talking to a simple dotnet / asp.net
web service.
// here app is a singleton class for app level data it is
bindable and is used to update the view which in this example is
bound to a public var MyObjects which in this case is an
ArrayCollection, I unbox to MyObject in a custom view control
for (var s:String in result.result)
m = new MyObject();
m.ID = result.result[s].ID;
m.Name = result.result[s].Name;
m.Type = result.result[s].Type;
app.MyObjects.addItem(m);
It also appears that you should create the WebService one
time, and store refrences to the methods during app startup, the
methods are called Operations and it appears you set the result and
fault events then call send on the operation to get the data.
// store this in a singleton app class
var ws:WebService = new WebService();
ws.wsdl = "
http://dev.domain.com/WebService.asmx?WSDL";
ws.addEventListener("result",doResults);
ws.addEventListener("fault",doFault);
ws.loadWSDL();
// this is the operation which is also stored in the
singleton app class
var op:AbstractOperation = ws.getOperation("GetModules");
// elsewere in the app we get the operation refrence setup
result and fault and call send, then copy the generic object into
our cutom classes using the first chunk of code above
op.addEventListener("result",doResults);
op.addEventListener("fault",doFault);
op.send();
I thought I would post this as I could find no such example
in the offline or online docs, If anyone has a better way or see's
a problem please post.
I hope helps others with non FDS service calls and I look
forward to hearing comments.
Thanks,
Mike