Where in the docs should I capture this wisdom?
On Wed., Apr. 21, 2021, 12:57 p.m. Josh Tynjala, <joshtynj...@bowlerhat.dev>
wrote:
> Just like how things worked in Flash, you can't just cast a random `var
> obj:Object = {}` to a class. It needs to be a real instance of that class.
> The basic rule to keep in mind is this: You can use `as CustomVO` with
> something that was created with `new CustomVO()`. For any other type, an as
> cast returns null.
>
> --
> Josh Tynjala
> Bowler Hat LLC <https://bowlerhat.dev>
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 4:24 PM gbarbosa <gbarbosa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Royale,
> >
> > I was recently trying to cast an Object
> >
> > obj as CustomVO
> >
> > but it would always turn to null. The as operator kept thinking CustomVO
> > was
> > type Function() why would this be?
> >
> > The workaround ending up being to set the prototype.
> >
> > Object.setPrototypeOf(obj, CustomVO.prototype);
> >
> > and this successfully casted correctly. Is there a better way to do this?
> > Most likely something something to do with the structure of CustomVO? the
> > classes it extends?
> >
> > Thanks for your time.
> >
> > -Gabriel Barbosa
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Sent from: http://apache-royale-development.20373.n8.nabble.com/
> >
>
