[Laszlo-dev] why does the compiler give an error if I ask for the nodeType of a data node in as3

[André Bargull]

We still want to have "nodeType", because the data-classes were modeled 
on the W3C-DOM specification:
"http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-DOM-Level-3-Core-20040407/core.html#ID-1950641247".
If LPP-5840 was implemented, or if we were able to code js2 
getters/setters, there wouldn't be any problems for AS3...


> The as3 XML dom nodes have a node.nodeKind() method, which gets the type string.
>
> On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Henry Minsky
> <hminsky at laszlosystems.com <http://www.openlaszlo.org/mailman/listinfo/laszlo-dev>> wrote:
> >/  Maybe I should be using instanceof at this point? There's not much
> />/ point in having nodeType anymore
> />/ I guess.
> />/
> />/
> />/ On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Donald Anderson <dda at ddanderson.com <http://www.openlaszlo.org/mailman/listinfo/laszlo-dev>> wrote:
> />>/ I think the problem is that 'LzDataNodeMixin' as a type becomes an
> />>/ interface,
> />>/ and interfaces can have no data members.  When LzDataNodeMixin is mixed into
> />>/ a class, you get the data elements, but none of them can be seen externally
> />>/ (through the interface).
> />>/ On Jul 19, 2008, at 9:20 AM, Henry Minsky wrote:
> />>/
> />>/   I've got this code which gets a flex compiler error when compiling in
> />>/ swf9:
> />>/
> />>/ public static function xmlrpc2jsobj (node:LzDataNodeMixin):* {
> />>/        if ( node.nodeType == LzDataElement.TEXT_NODE ){
> />>/
> />>/
> />>/ org.openlaszlo.sc.CompilerError: line unknown: Error: Access of
> />>/ possibly undefined property nodeType through a reference with static
> />>/ type LzDataNodeMixin, in line: if ($1.nodeType ==
> />>/ LzDataElement.TEXT_NODE) {
> />>/
> />>/ Why  does it not let me reference the nodeType of my 'node'? What is a
> />>/ "static type"?
> /