Well , surprisingly enough, it's not in any of the official Adobe docs :-( .
I have reviewed the release notes of FlashPlayer 10.1 to 10.3 => not any mention. Not in the asdocs either. However, it's in the playerglobal.swc (flash.utils.describeTypeJSON) and it's already used in some of IOC frameworks that heavily depend on reflection and other well know libs: - Parsley: http://www.spicefactory.org/parsley/docs/2.4/manual/?page=view§ion=config_explicit Search for describeTypeJSON - as3-commons: http://www.as3commons.org/as3-commons-reflect/introduction.html And I am using it every day, I can tell you it's much faster (I will do some benchmarks on typical UI component reflection and post them to this list). I am confused... Maurice -----Message d'origine----- De : Alex Harui [mailto:aha...@adobe.com] Envoyé : jeudi 10 octobre 2013 17:55 À : dev@flex.apache.org Objet : Re: describeType still used in many places in SDK On 10/10/13 7:25 AM, "Maurice Amsellem" <maurice.amsel...@systar.com> wrote: >Hi, > >While digging into MXML binding code, I discovered it was using >DescribeTypeCache class, which is still relying on the old >describeType() XML instead of the new describeTypeJSON() > >Hopefully, it's only called in some specific binding situations, such >as using a Binding expression on non-bindable property, on untyped props. > >Morevoer, describeType seems to be called in a number of other places, >notably: > >- Mx:DataGrid.itemEditorItemEditEndHandler > >- AbstractMessage getDebugString() [ not used in runtime ] > >- Etc... > >Shouldn't it be deprecated since FP 10.x in favor on describeTypeJSON, >which is much faster ? Interesting. Never heard of this API and it isn't in my copy of the documentation. Can you point me to it? -Alex
