implicit conversion of Object to XML in flex 3

Question

when I send an object through an HTTPService to an XML api run by a Rest ruby on rails server.. how does it get converted to XML? I mean, it just works fine for strings and numbers, but for example Date type conversion causes an "unprocessable entity" error on rails log..

Any Idea?

Answer 1

One possibility is that when the object is converted to XML, Flash calls toString() on the Date object, resulting in the Day Mon DD HH:MM:SS TZD YYYY format. If you call valueOf() on the Date object, you will get milliseconds since epoch, which is probably better for your case.

Answer 2

How to convert as3 objects to xml

http://blog.flexexamples.com/2008/03/04/converting-objects-to-xml-packets-using-the-simplexmlencoder-class-in-flex/