Hi,
I have an application that requires me to pass data between ColdFusion 8.0.1 and Flex 4. My application takes the username of the currently logged in user (stored as a ColdFusion session variable) and passes it to Flex, which then passes the username into a CFC to retrieve the user's info to populate a Name/Address form. I've been trying to do this via a cfm wrapper file (instead of HTML) and flashvars, but regardless of what username I pass in, I always get the same user's information returned to the interface, almost as if the value is hard-coded somewhere in my Flex project. I am setting the flashvar value as:
<script type="text/javascript">
<!-- For version detection, set to min. required Flash Player version, or 0 (or 0.0.0), for no version detection. -->
var swfVersionStr = "10.0.0";
<!-- To use express install, set to playerProductInstall.swf, otherwise the empty string. -->
var xiSwfUrlStr = "playerProductInstall.swf";
var flashvars = {};
<cfoutput>
flashvars.userName = "#session.userName#";
</cfoutput>
(etc.)
Inside my mxml init() function, I am setting the local flex variable as:
private function init():void
{
var userName:String = this.parameters.userName;
}
I had originally just hard-coded a value for userName when I was just testing the CF call Flex was making. Oddly, though, after I removed the hard-coded value and tried passing in the userName value from my cfm wrapper (quick note: I've tried passing in this value as both a session and a URL variable and have gotten the same results in both cases), the data returned is still the data associated with the previously hard-coded value. It's as if the Flex project itself is caching that value somewhere and keeps referring to it even though it's changed, but I have no idea if that's the case (or if it's even remotely possible, for that matter) or where I might look for it. I'm very new to Flex, so any help would be greatly appreciated. I've been using this article as a guide: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/fcf_deploying_flash.html; any better or other articles on this topic that might point me in the right direction are also appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
Also, I've tried removing ColdFusion from the equation entirely and just hard-coding flashvars.userName = "amanda" in an html wrapper and that value still doesn't seem to be getting into Flex, so I think the problem is somewhere in Flex. I had the Adobe example working using Flex 3 but I haven't gotten it to work since I upgraded to Flex 4...is there a difference in the way Flex 3 and 4 handle flashvars that I'm not taking into account?
Thanks!
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