JSON to ASON

I have blogged about JSON before but forgot to provide an example for getting JSON into AS. I saw a query on FlexIndia on JSON, so I thought I’ll post it now. The problem is to convert JSON to ActionScript Objects (or ASON). You can first try the demo application to see if this is what you are looking for…

• Application Demo
• Source Code (JSONTest.mxml)

In the app, you can either paste a URL (provided you have the security permissions) of a JSON to convert or paste your own JSON into the textarea and convert it.

This is what you need to do to get this working…

1. Go to AS3CoreLib on Google Code and download the corelib-.90.zip file and extract it
2. Get the corelib.swc from the /bin directory
3. Download the app source or write your own code
4. Do one of the following:
   If you are using FlexBuilder:
   1. Right click on your project go to Properties
   2. Navigate to Flex Build Path -> Libraries Tab -> Add SWC
   3. Now add the corelib.swc to your project
   4. Confirm that you have the line “import com.adobe.serialization.json.JSON;” in the code
   5. Run and Have Fun

   If you are using the command-line compiler:

   1. Place the swc in the directory of your mxml code
   2. Confirm that you have the line “import com.adobe.serialization.json.JSON;” in the code
   3. Type the following on the command line
   4. mxmlc -include-libraries=corelib.swc JSONTest.mxml
   5. Run and Have Fun

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