Seaside URL and FLEX HTTPService

> Hi,
>
> How would you encode a Seaside URL to be FLEX friendly? The URL was
> obtained from a call to urlForAction.
>
>
> You cannot send the URL with HTTPService in Flex
> (http://www.bpurcell.org/blog/index.cfm?entry=1040&mode=entry).
> But trying the mx:request proposed solution, a <_s> was transformed in
> %5Fs. And I am not sure how you would pass the third value ("1") for a
> URL like: http://myserver/seaside/myapp?_s=_DHqtxKBVBxRuX1o&_k=LvjV2ZDx&1
>
> I tried creating an object
>                        var o:Object =
> URLUtil.stringToObject(urlParam, "&amp;");
>                sField = o._s;
>                kField = o._k;
>                var params:Object = {};
>                        params["_s"] = sField;
>                        params["_k"] = kField;
>                        params["1"] = "";
>
> and then called a myHTTPService.send(params); but this still did not work.
>
> I also tried to pass a fully encoded URL but then FLEX sends:
> /seaside/myapp?_s=_DHqtxKBVBxRuX1o&amp;_k=LvjV2ZDx&amp;1
>
> This does not work either becasuse of the &amp;
>
> Has someone connected FLEX and Seaside through HTTPServer? Or other means?

> I would not claim much knowledge about FLEX. There might be a better
> way to do it...
>
> I am just trying to prototype a web page with part of its content
> displayed through FLEX. Seaside would generate the HTML page contening
> a call to the SWF file (generated from compiling the FLEX code). The
> FLEX component would then call back Seaside to get some XML formatted
> data and display that in a DataGrid.
>
> FLEX can call a web service in one call. For example
> (from http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/quickstart/httpservice/)
>
>    <mx:HTTPService
>         id="photoService"
>         url="http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne"
>         resultFormat="e4x"
>         result="photoResultHandler(event);"
>         fault="photoFaultHandler(event);"
>     />
>
> The first problem is that you cannot pass the URL parameters in the URL field.
>
> You could not send:
>    <mx:HTTPService
>         id="photoService"
>         url="http://myServer/seaside/myApp?_s=68pqfS&_k=SW7A&1"
>         resultFormat="e4x"
>         result="photoResultHandler(event);"
>         fault="photoFaultHandler(event);"
>     />
>
> They have an XML formatting option using mx:request as described in:
> http://www.bpurcell.org/blog/index.cfm?entry=1040&mode=entry
>
> <mx:HTTPService url="{myURL}" id="myHTTPData" method="GET"
> resultFormat="object">
>   <mx:request>
>   <mode>{mode}</mode>
>   <mode2>{mode2}</mode2>
>   <catid>{catid}</catid>
>  </mx:request>
>
>
> But translated to Seaside does not work (assuming that sField and
> kField are filled with the right values):
> <mx:HTTPService url="http://myServer/seaside/myApp" id="myHTTPData"
> method="GET" resultFormat="object">
>   <mx:request>
>   <_s>{sField}</_s>
>   <_k>{kField}</_k>
>   <1></1>
>  </mx:request>
> </mx:HTTPService>
>
> The <1> is not allowed in XML and the <_s> becomes a %5Fs.
>
> I tried other options but none are friendly to the usage of
> underscores and/or the value-less parameters (the last '&1' in the
> url).
>
> Has anyone done it? How?
> Thanks,
> Thierry
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> I would not claim much knowledge about FLEX. There might be a better
> way to do it...
>
> I am just trying to prototype a web page with part of its content
> displayed through FLEX. Seaside would generate the HTML page contening
> a call to the SWF file (generated from compiling the FLEX code). The
> FLEX component would then call back Seaside to get some XML formatted
> data and display that in a DataGrid.
>
> FLEX can call a web service in one call. For example
> (from http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/quickstart/httpservice/)
>
>    <mx:HTTPService
>         id="photoService"
>         url="http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne"
>         resultFormat="e4x"
>         result="photoResultHandler(event);"
>         fault="photoFaultHandler(event);"
>     />
>
> The first problem is that you cannot pass the URL parameters in the URL
> field.
>
> You could not send:
>    <mx:HTTPService
>         id="photoService"
>         url="http://myServer/seaside/myApp?_s=68pqfS&_k=SW7A&1"
>         resultFormat="e4x"
>         result="photoResultHandler(event);"
>         fault="photoFaultHandler(event);"
>     />

> They have an XML formatting option using mx:request as described in:
> http://www.bpurcell.org/blog/index.cfm?entry=1040&mode=entry
>
> <mx:HTTPService url="{myURL}" id="myHTTPData" method="GET"
> resultFormat="object">
>   <mx:request>
>   <mode>{mode}</mode>
>   <mode2>{mode2}</mode2>
>   <catid>{catid}</catid>
>  </mx:request>
>
>
> But translated to Seaside does not work (assuming that sField and
> kField are filled with the right values):
> <mx:HTTPService url="http://myServer/seaside/myApp" id="myHTTPData"
> method="GET" resultFormat="object">
>   <mx:request>
>   <_s>{sField}</_s>
>   <_k>{kField}</_k>
>   <1></1>
>  </mx:request>
> </mx:HTTPService>
>
> The <1> is not allowed in XML and the <_s> becomes a %5Fs.