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AS3: Creating an array of objects for storing JSON data

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  1. private var _myObjArr:Array = new Array(); // array of objects
  2. private var _stringAuthor:String;
  3. private var _stringDate:String;
  4. private var _stringText:String;
  5.  
  6. 		/**
  7. 		 * Success handler after requesting JSON data from server
  8. 		 * 
  9. 		 * @param event Event 
  10. 		 * @return void
  11. 		 */
  12. 		private function onSuccess(event:Event):void
  13. 		{
  14. 			var loader:URLLoader = event.target as URLLoader;
  15. 			var data:Object = null;
  16.  
  17. 			try { // get the raw JSON data 				
  18. 				data = JSON.decode(loader.data);
  19.  
  20. 			} catch(e:Error) {
  21. 				trace("Error requesting document");
  22. 			}
  23.  
  24. 			loader.close();
  25. 			loader = null;
  26.  
  27. 			if (data !=null)
  28. 			{
  29.  
  30. 				if (data.error)
  31. 				{
  32. 					trace(data.error);
  33.  
  34. 				} else {
  35. 	            	// loop thru data	            
  36. 			for (var key:Object in data) {
  37.  
  38. 			            _stringAuthor = '<p><span class="author">' + data[key].author + '</span></p>';
  39.  
  40. 			            _stringDate = '<span class="date">' + data[key].date + '</span></p>';
  41.  
  42. 			            _stringText = '<p><span class="text"> "' + data[key].text + '"</span></p>';			            
  43.  
  44.  
  45. 			             // save Author, Date, Text to an object array _myObjArr
  46. 			             var obj:Object = new Object();
  47. 			             obj.Author = _stringAuthor;
  48. 			             obj.Date = _stringDate;
  49. 			             obj.Text = _stringText;
  50. 			             _myObjArr.push(obj);
  51.  
  52. 			}
  53.  
  54. 				}
  55. 			}
  56.  
  57. 		} // end onSuccess
  58.  
  59. // now that we got all our info saved, we can retrieve it later in other functions like:
  60.  
  61. 			for(var i:uint = 0; i < _myObjArr.length; i++) {							
  62. 				_blogPost[i] = addBlogPosts();
  63. 				addChild(_blogPost[i]);
  64. 			}
  65.  
  66. // does this snippet help anyone?

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