Reputation: 83
Struggling to find any documentation to do a simple GET request to a URL to return JSON in Actionscript / Flex.
Anyone know
Upvotes: 0
Views: 63
Reputation: 1174
Use the URLLoader API.
var myJSON :Object; //listing as per "key:" with "value"
var str_JSON: String = ""; //if you need text String not data Object
var siteloader :URLLoader = new URLLoader( new URLRequest( your_URL ) );
siteloader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, whenSiteLoaded);
function whenSiteLoaded( evt :Event ) :void
{
myJSON = JSON.parse(evt.target.data); //get into Object
str_JSON = evt.target.data; //get into String
//... any other code
}
You should add to the above the listeners for error conditions (eg: a "file not found" situation)
Upvotes: 2