Article:		Putting REST on Rails
Subject:		Flash integration
Date:		2006-04-22 15:40:07
From:		slipabuck
Hi. I'm building a Flash app that connects to mySQL. I've never done web scripting before, but I picked up enough PHP to do what I need pretty quickly. (Right now, I'm using php.serialize to pass into/out of Flash). I recently heard about Rails, and though I'd give it a try. I created the library app per this tutorial and a basic Flash frontend tro test. When I POST to localhost:3000/books with xml.sendAndLoad in Flash, it keeps creating empty records. I tried using CURL as per your tutorial, and it worked fine. Here is my log from CURL: Processing BookController#collection (for 127.0.0.1 at 2006-04-22 15:22:20) [POST] Session ID: 610946147ef5047edb648e39e0f8741a Parameters: {"action"=>"collection", "controller"=>"book", "book"=>{"title"=>"losers", "description"=>"never win."}} Book Load (0.000000) SELECT * FROM books  Book Columns (0.016000) SHOW FIELDS FROM books SQL (0.000000) BEGIN SQL (0.015000) INSERT INTO books (`title`, `description`) VALUES('losers', 'never win.') SQL (0.000000) COMMIT Redirected to http://localhost:3000/book/by_id/8 Completed in 0.04700 (21 reqs/sec) | DB: 0.03100 (65%) | 201 Created [http://localhost/books/] And from Flash: Processing BookController#collection (for 127.0.0.1 at 2006-04-22 15:27:16) [POST] Session ID: 7136b9261bffc44afad273ece4984952 Parameters: {"action"=>"collection", "<book><title>a title</title><description>a description</description></book>"=>"", "controller"=>"book"} Book Load (0.000000) SELECT * FROM books  Book Columns (0.031000) SHOW FIELDS FROM books SQL (0.000000) BEGIN SQL (0.000000) INSERT INTO books (`title`, `description`) VALUES('', NULL) SQL (0.000000) COMMIT Redirected to http://localhost:3000/book/by_id/9 Completed in 0.29700 (3 reqs/sec) | DB: 0.03100 (10%) | 201 Created [http://localhost/books/] Do you know what would cause the script to recognize the XML from CURL but not from Flash? Any reccommendations? Is it worth doing this in RoR/XML rather than PHP/Serialize? Thanks much!

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• Flash integration
  2006-04-22 16:05:36 slipabuck
  
  There's a rule about posting for help with Actionscript - you always find the answer immediately after you ask. I guess putting it in words helps me think of new ways to search for the answer - I don't know.

  
  Anyway, apparantly there is such an object as XML.contentType in Flash and it need to by "application/xml" for this to work. Sorry for my dumbassity, and I'll try to put together a tutorial after I flesh this out a bit further. =P

  
  In the mean time, if somebody wants to use this plugin to integrate Rails and Flash, try this actionscript (You need a titlebox and a descriptionbox text field, as well as a sendButton movieclip). Insert this code in the timeline:
  ~~~~~~~~~~~
  stop();
  sendButton.onRelease = function() {
  //send the XML formatted data to the server
  var bookXML:XML = new XML("<book><title>"+titlebox.text+"</title><description>"+descriptionbox.text+"</description></book>");
  trace(bookXML);
  bookXML.contentType="application/xml";
  bookXML.send("http://localhost:3000/books/");
  }
  
  
  

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• Flash integration
  2006-04-22 15:41:30 slipabuck
  
  Sorry for the ridiculous spacing. I didn't realize it would do that. =P