Re: backends - parse/backendless/roll your own

[Arne Broedel <ar...@googlemail.com>]

Is there anyone who tested backendless? It looks really promising to me but
I have difficulties to query my data.


2013/8/27 Jerry Hamby <je...@vdex.com>

> Just wanted to followup on the statement I made about not being able to do
> "PUT" and "DELETE" in Flex.
> I have found a way to make it happen, just thought I would share.
>
> Instead of using HTTPService, I had to use URLRequest.
>
> The code issues a PUT REST command to the Apigee Usergrid NoSQL system:
> It assumes you have a collection(table) named "stores" and you are
> updating an entity(record) that has a UUID of "23kdlerj494slmfas-944jfksg"
>
> I now can stop sending my "PUT" and "DELETE" commands through a 3rd party
> server,
> Jerry
>
>
> ============= sample code ==================
> mBuildPutObjects("23kdlerj494slmfas-944jfksg", "theshoestore_23");
>
>
> public function mBuildPutObjects(vEntityUUID:String, vNewData:String):void{
>     var vObj:Object = new Object();
>     vObj.storename = vNewData;
>     mPutToEntity(vEntityUUID, vObj);
>     break;
> }
>
>
> public function mPutToEntity(vUUID:String, vObj:Object):void{
>                 var vTempJSONString:String =
>  com.adobe.serialization.json.JSON.encode(vObj);
>                 var url:String = ('https://api.usergrid.com/'
>                         + pMyOrgName
>                         +'/'
>                         + pTheAppName
>                         + '/stores/'
>                         + vUUID
>                         + '?ql=');
>                 var vRequest:URLRequest = new URLRequest(url);
>                 vRequest.method = URLRequestMethod.PUT;
>                 vRequest.contentType = 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded';
>                 vRequest.data = vTempJSONString;
>                 var loader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
>                 loader.dataFormat = URLLoaderDataFormat.TEXT;
>                 loader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, mAuthenticated);
>                 loader.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR,
> mIOerrorHandler);
>                 loader.load(vRequest);
>
>         //------------------
>         function mIOerrorHandler(event:Event):void{
>                 trace("mPutToEntity mIOerrorHandler IN RESPONSE ");
>         }
>
>         //------------------
>         function mAuthenticated(event:Event):void{
>                 var vTempJSON:Object =
>  com.adobe.serialization.json.JSON.decode(event.currentTarget.data as
> String, false);
>                 trace("mPutToEntity mGoodResults
> vTempJSON.entities[0].name) = "+vTempJSON.entities[0].name);
>         }
> }
>
>
>
>
> On Aug 8, 2013, at 10:40 AM, OmPrakash Muppirala wrote:
> >>
> > Have you tried the as3httpclient library?  [1]
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Om
> >
> > [1] https://github.com/gabriel/as3httpclient/blob/master/EXAMPLES.md
>