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How do you call RESTful JSON Web service from within Flash (not Flex)?

Is it possible to call a web service from within Flash (using AS3)? Or is the best idea to put the flash movieclip in a Flex container and use the Flex Libraries?

To be clear, when I say within Flash, I mean within the Flash CS4, AS3 programming environment.

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It's perfectly possible to call a JSON-returning RESTful URL from your Flash application. I do it all the time :-)

Just format a standard request using any of the RPC mechanisms (UrlLoader, HttpService) and decode the returned JSON text using the JSON serializer in as3corelib.

Vinay Sajip  2009-08-27 12:45:30
Sorry Vinay - maybe not clear... I meant from within a flash application. Maybe there's a way of including the relvatn flex libraries?
dan  2009-08-27 12:58:32
Actually, I'm 99% sure he meant Flash; I've done it from a Flash application, too, and the method is the same as a Flex application.
Michael Todd  2009-08-27 13:02:12
You can use HTTPService and as3corelib together in flash to do this. URLLoader would work in place of HTTPService if you want too
Sean Clark Hess  2009-08-27 21:22:50
How would you access HTTPService from the Flash environment - isn't this a Flex Library?
dan  2009-09-03 13:00:43
+1  A: 

You could try as3httpclientlib and as3corelib has JSON serialization.

Brandon  2009-08-27 15:26:33

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