Unable to port a flex method

[pashminakazi]

We have a method:
https://paste.apache.org/jy56s
We are calling it as : shmUtil.setForm(arrFormItems, voCompany as Object,
org.apache.royale.reflection.describeType(shmCompanySetupVO) as XML);

We have tried it using TypeDefinition Instead of XML.

When we have changed XML to TypeDefinition in method setForm(...aValueObjInfo:TypeDefinition){.....
for each (var val:TypeDefinition in aValueObjInfo..variable)
...}

I got a compile time Error as ..variable property not exist in TypeDefinition:

Access of possibly undefined property variable through a reference with static type TypeDefinition.
[java]
[java] for each (var val:TypeDefinition in aValueObjInfo..variable)

Kindly Help us to Port this method. As we are using this method in our whole Application in every file.

Thanks in Advance

[aharui]

I think the loop should be something like:

for each (var val:VariableDefinition in aValueObjInfo.variables)

[greg-dove]

Alex is correct (this will let you loop through the public instance variable definitions).
But you will also need to make more changes inside the loop.
(assuming 'val' is a VariableDefinition in all below):
wherever you have name comparisons it should be without the '@'
instead of:
if((aFormItems[k].id == val.@name)
it should be:
if((aFormItems[k].id == val.name)

And you need to change any reflection based getting and setting...

instead of:
aFormItems[k].text = aValuObject[val.@name];

you need:
aFormItems[k].text = val.getValue(aValuObject);

Generally for getting or setting values it should be like:
var instanceVal:* = val.getValue(instance);
val.setValue(instance, valueToBeSet)

You should use the above approach instead of using instance[val.name]. (where val.name is the name of the variable in the original actionscript, and is the same value as for name in XML attribute)

The getValue/setValue approaches are important if you want to use reflection for manipulating public vars correctly in js-release build (because they are likely to be renamed by google closure compiler)

[alinakazi]

Thanks issue has been fixed