Passing request data with Flashvars

Question

I need to pass query parameters from one application to another and am following an example in help docs at
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/flex/using/WS2db454920e96a9e51e63e3d11c0bf626ae-7feb.html
So I am passing parameters through the wrapper object as below:
<%
    String userId = (String) request.getParameter("userId");
    String authToken = (String) request.getParameter("authToken");
%>
        <script type="text/javascript" src="swfobject.js"></script>
        <script type="text/javascript">
            <!-- For version detection, set to min. required Flash Player version, or 0 (or 0.0.0), for no version detection. -->
            var swfVersionStr = "10.0.0";
            <!-- To use express install, set to playerProductInstall.swf, otherwise the empty string. -->
            var xiSwfUrlStr = "playerProductInstall.swf";
            var flashvars = {};
           flashvars.userId = "<%= userId %>";
            flashvars.authToken = "<%= authToken %>";
            var params = {};
            params.quality = "high";
            params.bgcolor = "#869ca7";
            params.allowscriptaccess = "sameDomain";
            params.allowfullscreen = "true";
            var attributes = {};
            attributes.id = "xacmlMain";
            attributes.name = "xacmlMain";
            attributes.align = "middle";
            swfobject.embedSWF(
                "main.swf", "flashContent",
                "100%", "100%",
                swfVersionStr, xiSwfUrlStr,
                flashvars, params, attributes);
            <!-- JavaScript enabled so display the flashContent div in case it is not replaced with a swf object. -->
            swfobject.createCSS("#flashContent", "display:block;text-align:left;");
        </script>
In the mxml file:
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" xmlns:mod="mod.*"
            applicationComplete="readParams(event)"
    layout="vertical" height="100%" width="100%">
            protected function readParams(event:Event) : void {
                var userId:String;
                var authToken:String;
                var subjectParams:Object = root.loaderInfo.parameters;
                for (var subjectParam:String in subjectParams) {
                    userId = subjectParams["userId"];
                    authToken = subjectParams["authToken"];
                //userId = root.loaderInfo.parameters.userId;               
                Alert.show ("\t" + "userId value" + ":\t" + userId + "\n" +
                    "\t" + "authToken value" + ":\t" + authToken + "\n"    );                                       
However, seems like this part of the code is not working:
           flashvars.userId = "<%= userId %>";
             flashvars.authToken = "<%= authToken %>";
because instead of the values passed these variables, my app reads
          < userId
          < authToken
if I use values which are fixed, it works fine e.g.
          flashvars.userId = "smith";
Your help will be much appreciated
Thank you.

Answer 1

What technology are you using? JSP, PHP? I think the example you are using was for JSP.
- Jason