How do I read a Django HTTPResponse in Flex? - django

Question

I'm a complete Flex noob, so I apologize in advance if I'm missing something obvious.
I wrote a fairly simple file uploader in Flex, which calls my Django back-end via URLRequest (the FileReference object handles the upload). My upload works as intended and I have Django return a HTTPResponse object. As such, I'd like to read the contents of the HTTPResponse object.
Any thoughts?

Answer 1

something along the lines of
<mx:HTTPService id="myHTTPRequest"
url="{whatever your url request is}"
result="resultHandler(event)"
fault="faultHandler(event)"
showBusyCursor="true"
resultFormat="object">
then inside the resultHandler something like this
private function resultHandler (event : ResultEvent) : void {
var obj : Object = event.result;
//do something with returned object
}
Debug at the point of the resultHandler to see exaclty whats being returned, make sure its what you think should be getting returned.

Answer 2

By the time it gets to the client it's just a normal HTTP response so treat it like any other response

Answer 3

I am also new to flex and I ran in the same problem when doing an upload to a Java Rest backend, I solved it using the DateEvent on the FileReference. To get the response data use something like this.:
var fileRef:FileReference = new FileReference();
fileRef.addEventListener(DataEvent.UPLOAD_COMPLETE_DATA, responseHandler);
var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest("yourUrl");
fileRef.upload(request, "fileData");
private function responseHandler(event:DataEvent):void {
var response:XML = new XML(event.data);
//Note the DataEvent: this is the event that holds the response.
//I sent back data as xml
}
Your response should always be a successful HTTP status code (200), if your backend sends status 500 codes it will not trigger the DateEvent. Server errors can still be caught with a HTTPStatusEvent, but then you don't have access to the response.

Answer 4

you can access the response like so in your onComplete event handler:
private function saveCompleteHandler(event:Event):void {
var loader:URLLoader = event.currentTarget as URLLoader;
trace("saveCompleteHandler - event returned:" + loader.data as String);
}
we do this this to get json fron a java web service.
you just need to use a URLLoader to load the URLRequest in the first place:
var loader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
loader.addEventListener(HTTPStatusEvent.HTTP_STATUS, statusHandler, 10000);
loader.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, saveErrorHandler, 10000);
loader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, saveCompleteHandler, 10000);
var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest("http:/whereverer");
request.method = URLRequestMethod.GET;
loader.load(request);