Time to hit lunch! Had a trouble with not having a lunch coupon, but it was fun watching the assembly line with with the organizers collected the lunch coupons from 4000+ people! The food wasn’t that great - maybe didn’t suit my Indian taste buds. But the environment was too cool. Checkout the pics:
This is how Day 0 is coming out to be… I’m sitting right now in the “Building Livecycle Applications” - Pre-Event session taken by Bob Bailey from Adobe. These “Pre-Event Sessions” are essentially full-day hands-on tutorial classes, which are very cool to learn the new technologies/products from Adobe. Here is the pic:
I wanted to check out what the place for MAX looked the day before the conference, and took a lot of snaps. Lot of teams were hard at work!
The Flexmaniacs conference has just posted the Flex sessions they had online at http://flex2conference.figleaf.com/presentations.cfm
I really loved the sessions, my particular recommendations are the ones on Flex modules and Cairngorm by Jim Robson
I’ve written a small example to show how to call REST services from Flex.
See working example: click here
Source code: click here
The sample is source code enabled.
Accessing REST services with Flex is pretty simple. The main work done in the code is done by the following code:
<mx:HTTPService id=”yahoo_image_search”
url=”http://search.yahooapis.com/ImageSearchService/V1/imageSearch”>
<mx:request>
<appid>get your id from yahoo</appid>
<query>{input.text}</query>
</mx:request>
</mx:HTTPService>
Here we are calling the REST API with HTTP Service and passing it two required parameters:
appid - The application ID. See Application IDs for more information.
query - The query to search for. Use + to include terms, - to exclude terms, and put quotes around “exact phrase”.
You can find the complete description of the Yahoo! Image Search API here - http://developer.yahoo.com/search/image/V1/imageSearch.html
The response returned by the API is in XML format:
<ResultSet xmlns:xsi=”http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance” xmlns=”urn:yahoo:srchmi” xsi:schemaLocation=”urn:yahoo:srchmi http://search.yahooapis.com/ImageSearchService/V1/ImageSearchResponse.xsd” totalResultsAvailable=”190145″ totalResultsReturned=”2″ firstResultPosition=”1″>
<Result>
<Title>Madonna photo Madonna 6200315</Title>
<Summary />
<Url>
http://www.poster.net/madonna/madonna-photo-madonna-6200315.jpg</Url>
Hence, to access the main results we need to access the <Result> node inside of <ResultSet>, which is pretty state forward with our Datagrid.
