I have a dataprovider and a filterfunction for my array that's assigned to my dataprovider.
How can I get a list of the properties that are in each row of the dataprovider (item.data) as it gets passed to the filterfunction?
For instance, if my object contained:
Then I would want, in my filterfunction to be able to look at name, email and address. Unfortunately, I don't know what these properties will be before hand.
Any ideas?
// this method will work for retrieving properties of a *non-dynamic* (typed) object
// @return - all object properties
public function getProperties(_obj : *) : Array
{
var _description : XML = describeType(_obj);
var _properties : Array = new Array();
for each (var prop:XML in _description.accessor)
{
var _property : Object = new Object();
_property.name = String(prop.@name);
_property.type = String(simple_type(prop.@type));
_property.access = String(prop.@access);
_property.declaredBy = String(prop.@declaredBy);
try
{
_property.value = _obj[_property.name];
}
catch (e : Error)
{
_property.value = "";
}
_properties.push(_property)
}
_properties.sortOn("name");
return _properties;
}
// better format for object class information
private function simple_type(_type : String) : String
{
var lastIndex : int = _type.lastIndexOf("::");
_type = lastIndex > 0 ? _type.substr(lastIndex + 2) : _type;
return _type;
}