Comments on: FlexFeed: Twitter RSS Feeds in Flex

By: Balsky

Balsky — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 09:44:55 +0000

Hi, I got this error when run it on firefox

[RPC Fault faultString="Error #1088: The markup in the document following the root element must be well-formed." faultCode="Client.CouldNotDecode" faultDetail="null"]
at mx.rpc.http::HTTPService/http://www.adobe.com/2006/flex/mx/internal::processResult()
at mx.rpc::AbstractInvoker/http://www.adobe.com/2006/flex/mx/internal::resultHandler()
at mx.rpc::Responder/result()
at mx.rpc::AsyncRequest/acknowledge()
at DirectHTTPMessageResponder/completeHandler()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
at flash.net::URLLoader/onComplete()

By: Chris Black

Chris Black — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:59:15 +0000

Yup. You can use htmlText rather than text when setting the variable. It doesn’t look like twitter is returning the a href tags though. That means that you would need to parse the text and use a regular expression to add the link tags into the string before setting the htmlText.

Sample RegExp:
var regEx:RegExp = new RegExp(‘[a-zA-Z]+://([.]?[a-zA-Z0-9?=&%#_/-])*’, ‘ig’);
_dynamicText.htmlText = string.replace(regEx, “$&”);

By: nigel

nigel — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:06:53 +0000

hi chris,

is it possible to get those links active?

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 25 May 2009 08:15:02 +0000

Hey thanks for this, I was making calls directly from flash, and it worked fine locally, then I uploaded to my server, and I got nothing. Hit google and found this, solved my problem within 5 mins. Thanks!

By: Conjure one

Conjure one — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 05:41:25 +0000

I discovered the issue was with the PHP settings on my server. Never mind the previous posts. Thanks again for the great tutorial!

By: Conjure One

Conjure One — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 05:27:02 +0000

BTW Great Tutorial and learning resource! Many thanks!

By: Conjure One

Conjure One — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 05:20:04 +0000

The PHP does not seem to consistently retrieve the data via this script (PHP). I can only occasionally receive the data into flex. any ideas as to why this is?

By: Chris Black

Chris Black — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:14:12 +0000

Here is info from Adobe:

“When working with XML, ensure that you open any namespaces that you want to use. The namespace for the Flickr RSS feed is http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom. You must define a namespace and set it to this unique URL and then include the use statement for that namespace. Otherwise, you do not have access to the contents of the loaded XML document.”

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/quickstart/httpservice/

and info on Nampspace:

http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/langref/Namespace.html

Declaring a name space in Flex will affect all subsequent calls to xml from there on out.

By: kanenas

kanenas — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 11:18:43 +0000

What’s the purpose of the atom namespace? You don’t seem to define or reference any name in or from it.

By: Chris Black

Chris Black — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 20:13:15 +0000

You can use any server side language as a medium to access Twitter. I used php since it is the one that I am most familiar with. I would be interested in seeing what the jsp looks like if anyone is willing to post it here. Thanks!