In Flex, what's the best way to use a dictionary as a dataprovider?

Question

Normally in Flex you use a collection like ArrayCollection as the dataprovider for components. I often have data stored as a dictionary whose values I would like to use as a dataprovider.

How would you recommend doing this?

Answer 1

Other than extending the "dataProvider using" component, or creating a ListCollectionView class that will use a Dictionary as a source; I think you're kind of stuck.

The list based components are designed to display data that comes in some form of order. Dictionary's have no such order.