ACTIONSCRIPT 3 Developer’s Guide en

ACTIONSCRIPT 3.0 DEVELOPER’S GUIDE
HTTP communications
RESTful web service request
function makeRequest()
{
var requestDisplay = document.getElementById( "request" );
var resultDisplay = document.getElementById( "result" );
//Create a conveninece object to hold the call properties
var request = {};
request.URL = "http://service.example.com/";
request.method = "test.echo";
request.HTTPmethod = "GET";
request.parameters = {};
request.parameters.api_key = "ABCDEF123";
request.parameters.message = "Able was I ere I saw Elba.";
var requestURL = makeURL( request );
xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
xmlhttp.open( request.HTTPmethod, requestURL, true);
xmlhttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
if (xmlhttp.readyState == 4) {
resultDisplay.innerHTML = xmlhttp.responseText;
}
}
xmlhttp.send(null);
requestDisplay.innerHTML = requestURL;
}
//Convert the request object into a properly formatted URL
function makeURL( request )
{
var url = request.URL + "?method=" + escape( request.method );
for( var property in request.parameters )
{
url += "&" + property + "=" + escape( request.parameters[property] );
}
return url;
}
Request:
Result:
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