Web service calls are asynchronous in flex, but I wanted to wrap a web service call in a class to provide synchronous encapsulation. Something like the below - the user could call getMyMethodResult and get the result returned by the web service. I expected the thread that recieved the soap response would populate the variable _result and mean that getMyMethod would, after a time, find _result is not longer null. But it doesn't! Can anyone explain why this does not work?
public class myClass { private var _result:Object;
public function myClass()
{
//create a web service object
...
// Add listener
_service.addMyMethodListener(myMethodListener);
}
public function getMyMethodResult()
{
_service.myMethod();
while (_result == null)
{
// count a variable or something (unimportant)
}
return _result;
}
private function myMethodListener(event:Event):void
{
_result = event.result;
}
}