Flash Remoting: The Definitive Guide

SOAP Datatype Conversion

Web services are varied but have a core set of datatypes that are readily converted by the Flash gateway. Table A-11 shows the datatype conversions from Flash ActionScript to SOAP.

Table A-11. Flash-to-SOAP datatype conversion

Flash (ActionScript)	SOAP
ActionScript object	complex type
Array (indexed)	array
Array (associative)	complex type
Boolean	boolean
Date object	dateTime
Number	decimal, float, double, integer, int (depending on what the number is most readily converted to)
RecordSet	query object[6]
String	String
Undefined	null
XML Object	System.Xml.XmlDocument
Null	null
[6] ColdFusion only.

Table A-12 shows the datatype conversions from SOAP to Flash ActionScript.

Table A-12. SOAP-to-Flash datatype conversion

SOAP	Flash (ActionScript)
complex type	ActionScript object
complex type	ActionScript object of that type
array	Array (indexed)
complex type	Array (associative)
Boolean	Boolean
dateTime	Date object
decimal, float, double, integer, int	Number
complex type	Array of RecordSets
query object[7]	RecordSet
string	String
System.Xml.XmlDocument	XML object
nothing	Null
[7] ColdFusion only.