How to post a Object in HttpService?

Question

Such as:
<mx:HTTPService id="HSDemo" method="POST"
showBusyCursor="true" url="goalInsert.action">
<mx:request>
<book.title>{names.text}</book.title>
</mx:request>
</mx:HTTPService>
RESULT: "{names.text}" is undefined.
WHY?

Answer 1

First, you are doing a few things I don't undertand.
The url property, for instance does not look valid. Can you
type that in a browser address and get anything back?
The child tags of mx:request are supposed to create
properties on the request object. I don't think "book.title" is
valid. Does that compile ok?
How are you invoking the send?
How are you handling the result?
Assuming "names" is the id of a TextInput or TextArea, I
would think your code should look like this:
<mx:HTTPService id="HSDemo" method="POST"
showBusyCursor="true"
url="
http://myWebServer/myApp/myJSP.jsp">
<mx:request>
<action>insert</action>
<booktitle>{names.text}</booktitle>
</mx:request>
</mx:HTTPService>
Also, to do this in AS:
var oRequest
bject = {title:names.text,action:"insert"};
HSDemo.send(oRequest);
You do not need the mx:request tags this way, and you can
more easily debug to make sure names.text has a value.
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