Flex 2 growing pains

As I continue to poke my way around with Flex2 in the few hours I get a week, once in a while I keep hitting walls that I dont really expect. And with any new technology, my skills with google search yield few results to ease the pain. Take today for example…

So there I was trying to write this real easy app that would take this not too convoluted XML file and render it in a list with the node-names as the entries. Nothing simpler, you say?…not quite. For the longest time after putzing with the HTTPService class, I was still not able to read the stupid document. I looked at some of the examples couldnt quite find out what I was doing wrong…..until 5 minutes ago.

Turns out HTTPService returns the data as an object by default. To get an XML document back make sure you have resultFormat=”xml” in the HTTPService.

Oh, and remember to keep XML.ignoreWhitespace = “true”.

…source code coming soon.