Populate ComboBox from database - NOT using Flex Data Services

Question

Hi there,
We are using CF with Flex but are not using the Flex Data
Service. I'm very much a newb and I'm having trouble finding any
information on how to populate controles from a database without
using Flex Data Service. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
First I have a page... JobSearch.mxml that contains a combo
box that I want to populate with the job_id and job_title from a
MSSQL database.
In Flex in the RDS DataView I used the "Create CFC" Wizard
which generated "job.cfc" and "jobGateway.cfc". It also generated
"job.as".
The CF Function that selects the data appears to be defaulted
and called "load" and the .as function is called simply "job".
So, that all looks great. But I can't find any information on
what I need to have on my JobSearch.mxml to actually get this data
into the comboBox.
I did:
<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[
[Bindable]
public var jobData:job = null;
]]>
</mx:Script>
And then:
<mx:ComboBox
text="{jobData.job_title}"></mx:ComboBox>
But I'm being told "Type was not found or was not a
complie-time constant: job"
I guess I'm missing something, or doing something way
wrong... I just don't know enough of Flex at this point to know
what it is.
Thanks!
April

Answer 1

Using php or asp is not an option, as we are a Cold Fusion
House.
I was looking at an article on Ben Forta's blog (
http://www.forta.com/blog/index.cfm?mode=e&entry=1786)
and following his example I did this... only it doesn't work:
I'm very very new to Flash and we are using ColdFusion but
are not using Flex Data Services. I've been trying to figure out
how to populate a combobox from a database and I'm just not having
any luck.
My project is called "PreTraffic". I have my main file as
"JobSearch.mxml" and a folder under the root named "cfc" with a
file called "job.cfc".
job.cfc contains the following code:
<cfcomponent>
<!--- Get jobs --->
<cffunction name="GetJob" access="remote"
returntype="query" output="false">
<cfset var job="">
<cfset var results="">
<cfquery datasource="discsdev" name="job">
SELECT job_id, job_title
FROM job
WHERE status = 'O'
ORDER BY job_title
</cfquery>
<cfquery dbtype="query" name="results">
SELECT job_title AS label, job_id AS data
FROM job
ORDER BY label
</cfquery>
<cfreturn results>
</cffunction>
</cfcomponent>
And JobSearch.mxml has the following code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application
xmlns:mx="
http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
xmlns="*"
layout="absolute"
backgroundGradientColors="[#ffffff, #d0d0d0]"
creationComplete="InitApp()">
<mx:Style source="style.css" />
<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[
public function InitApp():void {
jobSvc.GetJob();
]]>
</mx:Script>
<!-- ColdFusion CFC (via AMF) -->
<mx:RemoteObject id="jobSvc" destination="PreTraffic"
showBusyCursor="true" />
<mx:VBox label="Job History" width="100%" height="100%"
x="10" y="92">
<mx:Label text="Search jobs by"/>
<mx:Form label="Task" width="100%">
<mx:FormItem label="Job Name:">
<mx:ComboBox id="jobNameCB"
dataProvider="{jobSvc.GetJob.results}"></mx:ComboBox>
</mx:FormItem>
</mx:Form>
<mx:HBox>
<mx:Button label="Search"/>
<mx:Button label="Clear"/>
</mx:HBox>
</mx:VBox>
</mx:Application>
My Compiler thingy points to:
-services
"/Volumes/flexwwwroot/WEB-INF/flex/job-services-config.xml" -locale
en_US
and job-services-config.xml contains the following code:
<destination id="PreTraffic">
<channels>
<channel ref="my-cfamf"/>
</channels>
<properties>
<source>flex.pretraffic.cfc.job</source>
<lowercase-keys>true</lowercase-keys>
</properties>
</destination>
Well, when I run the app... the combobox is not populated...
Can anyone help with what I've done wrong?
Thanks!
April