How to extend an AS3 class in an MXML Component

Hello,
I have a few MXML Components based on the Spark Group.
They all use MXML for layouta and AS3 for logic.
They all have the same logic and I would like all to extend an AS3 class to have the same methods and properties isteand of declaring the same exact ones for each MXML Component.
How can this be done please?

Hm, no, I'm not explaing this properly.
I have an MXML component based on the Spark Group.
It has a few form elements.
There are many such components.
I want all to have two public methods: getData() and setData() which get and set data from and to the input elements.
I don't want to write the exact same method for all of them.
I would like to at least interface the MXML components with an AS3 class forcing them to have those 2 methods.

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