Dumping Flex Objects

and there's nothing like cfdump in ASP.NET either....
...boy have I been spoiled!

Shigeru, that can happen when attempting to use ObjectUtil.toString() on complex objects or on some core classes. I haven't tried to find a pattern among the different cases we've seen. Does anyone know if certain methods or class definitions cause that ObjectUtil method to crash?

Xray and LuminicBox are 2 excellent tools for examining objects.

Here is one I use as well, error is a textarea. Simply send in the object you wish to see expanded. I tried doing this recursively as well, but objects have circular references at times.

You can change this to use trace as well.

function showme(o) {
      error.text = error.text + "**************************" + "\r";
      for (var prop in o) {
         error.text = error.text + "prop: " + prop + " value: " + o[prop] + "\r";
         }
      error.text = error.text + "**************************" + "\r";
      }

I may be stupid.

I tried to dump Loder's Complete Event Object.
And the Loder component load SWF.
it must be huge...

it's like below.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.macromedia.com/2005/mxml" xmlns="*" layout="absolute">

<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[

private function loadComponent():void
{
swfLd.source = "./swfComponent01.swf";
}

private function loadCompetedEvent(evt:Event):void
{
txtDump.text = mx.utils.ObjectUtil.toString(evt);
}

]]>
</mx:Script>

<mx:Button x="10" y="10" label="Load" click="loadComponent()"/>
<!-- <mx:Loader id="swfLd" x="10" y="42" complete="loadCompetedEvent(event)" /> -->
<mx:Loader id="swfLd" x="10" y="42" source="./swfComponent01.swf" complete="loadCompetedEvent(event)" />
<mx:TextArea id="txtDump" x="10" y="290" width="610" height="360"/>
</mx:Application>


If Loader load SWF on clicking button, InternetExplorer didn't shutdown and FlashPlayer output runtime error like below.

StackOverflowError: Error #1023: Stack overflow.
at mx.utils::ObjectUtil$/getClassInfo()
...

But Loader load SWF on loading, InternetExplorer shutdowned.

Here's the FlexDump component:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:TextArea xmlns:mx="http://www.macromedia.com/2005/mxml" xmlns="*">
   <mx:Script>
      <![CDATA[
         import mx.utils.ObjectUtil;
         private var _dump:Object;
         private var _dumpString:String = '';
         
         function get dump():String
         {
            return _dumpString;
         }
         
         public function set dump(value:Object):void
         {
            _dump = value;
            
            setDump(value);
         }
         
         private function setDump(newDump:Object):void
         {
            //trace(newDump);
            _dumpString = ObjectUtil.toString(newDump);
            //trace(_dumpString);
            this.text = _dumpString;   
         }
      ]]>
   </mx:Script>
</mx:TextArea>



And here's an example app:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.macromedia.com/2005/mxml" xmlns="*" layout="absolute">
<mx:Array id="arr1" >
   <mx:Object label="{Math.random()}" />
   <mx:Object label="{Math.random()}" />
   <mx:Object label="{Math.random()}" />
   <mx:Object label="{Math.random()}" />
   <mx:Object label="{Math.random()}" />
   <mx:Object label="{Math.random()}" />
   <mx:Object label="{Math.random()}" />
</mx:Array>
   <FlexDump width="100%" height="100%" id="dump1" dump="{arr1}" />
</mx:Application>