Passing an ArrayCollection from ColdFusion to Flex (with BlazeDS)

Question

When pushing objects from ColdFusion to Flex via BlazeDS, and mapping the classes using RemoteClass...

[RemoteClass(alias="blah.blah")]

...is it possible to have ColdFusion "Arrays" (or some Java equivalent) automatically mapped to ActionScript ArrayCollections?

This chap nearly had it, but not quite:

http://www.richinternet.de/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=33CF66A4-DC95-6312-95EFE8E3DB31D298

Answer 1

For what it's worth, a ColdFusion Query object maps directly and automatically to an ArrayCollection. So if it's an option, you could manually create a query object and return that from your service.

Answer 2

After upgrading to CF 9.0.1 & BlazeDS 4, I finally have an answer to this.

You can now use the following node in you services-config.xml

<serialize-array-to-arraycollection>true</serialize-array-to-arraycollection>

Details here: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/Developing/WS5B9C73A8-5FA2-4a54-B0C6-CECA2E20052D.html