Getting data from multiple XML Files

Question

Could any one please shed some light about the best way to
read multiple external xml files through Flex? We haveabout 100
different xml files (of which only few are randomly accessed by the
users).
I tried implementing the following generic function which
takes a filename but when debugging it, it seems that the handler
never gets call after executing the service.send() line! I will
greatly appreciate your help!!!
public function fetchFileContent(fileName:String):void{
//this method is called upon clicking on a button
var service:HTTPService = new HTTPService();
service.url = "filePath/" + fileName ;
service.useProxy = false;
service.resultFormat = "e4x";
service.addEventListener ("result",fileRetrievalHandler)
service.send();
public function fileRetrievalHandler(evnt:ResultEvent):void{
fileContent = evnt.result.feed; //this line never gets
executed

Answer 1

"miglara" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> Could any one please shed some light about the best way
to read multiple
> external xml files through Flex? We haveabout 100
different xml files (of
> which
> only few are randomly accessed by the users).
> I tried implementing the following generic function
which takes a
> filename
> but when debugging it, it seems that the handler never
gets call after
> executing the service.send() line! I will greatly
appreciate your help!!!
>
> public function fetchFileContent(fileName:String):void{
//this method is
> called upon clicking on a button
> var service:HTTPService = new HTTPService();
> service.url = "filePath/" + fileName ;
> service.useProxy = false;
> service.resultFormat = "e4x";
> service.addEventListener ("result",fileRetrievalHandler)
> service.send();
> }
>
> public function
fileRetrievalHandler(evnt:ResultEvent):void{
> fileContent = evnt.result.feed; //this line never gets
executed
> }
Try adding a fault handler and seeing if that fires. Also,
since you're
using HTTPService instead of URLLoader, be aware that this
probably won't
ever work from your development environment unless you've
either changed the
output directory to go to the server or you've changed some
compiler flags
to allow you to get local and network access at the same
time. This is why
I always use URLLoader to load in XML files at a relative
path...it just
works, without my needing to change anything.