Caching webservice calls on Flex 3

Question

Hi,

I have a Flex 3 application that makes a call to a webservice. That webservice calls returns a 2 Mb file that flex reads and parses. The problem is that it takes sometimes 45 seconds. I was wondering if there is a way to cache the response form the webservice? So the next time I load the flash movie it doesn't have to re-download the full file but just the updated data.

Thank you for any help

Yves

Answer 1

Well you can code something to let you map a request to a response, if you can uniquely identify a request based on parameters. Then call a method like getWebServiceResult(x,y,z) which checks if a result for {x,y,z} is already found.

There may be functionality for caching built into Flex though, so I'd double-check that first.