Frequently Asked Questions

General

1. When running my application using Spring Actionscript's XMLApplicationContext I get these kinds of runtime errors: "Error: A class with the name 'XXXXX' could not be found.". What's wrong?
2. I see a lot of trace messages reporting constructor errors when starting my application, what's wrong?
3. My classes that have been annotated with the [Autowired] metadata are not being autowired, what's wrong?
4. I don't need all of this fancy autowiring functionality on my objects, can I turn it off completely?
5. Is it possible to prevent the autowiring process from examining the class metadata for objects that are created by the container?
6. Spring Actionscript suffixes my property file URL with a random string to prevent it from being cached, can I turn this behavior off?
7. Is it possible to skip the postprocessing step in the wiring pipeline for objects that are created by the container?

General

When running my application using Spring Actionscript's XMLApplicationContext I get these kinds of runtime errors: "Error: A class with the name 'XXXXX' could not be found.". What's wrong?

Your class han't been included properly, this documentation section will tell you all you need to know: Forcing Actionscript class inclusion

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I see a lot of trace messages reporting constructor errors when starting my application, what's wrong?

These traces come from the as3commons-reflect library, the errors that are being reported are harmless, yet necessary to work around a certain Flash Player bug.

To turn these error messages off you can use this code:

	private static var loggerSetup:* = setupLogging();
	private static var logger:ILogger = LoggerFactory.getLogger("YourAppName.Main");

	private static function setupLogging():void {
		LoggerFactory.loggerFactory = new FlexLoggerFactory();

		var traceTarget:TraceTarget = new TraceTarget();
		traceTarget.includeCategory = true;
		traceTarget.includeDate = true;
		traceTarget.includeLevel = true;
		traceTarget.includeTime = true;
		traceTarget.filters = ["YourAppName.*"];
		Log.addTarget(traceTarget);

		var traceTargetSpring:TraceTarget = new TraceTarget();
		traceTargetSpring.includeCategory = true;
		traceTargetSpring.includeDate = true;
		traceTargetSpring.includeLevel = true;
		traceTargetSpring.includeTime = true;
		traceTargetSpring.level = LogEventLevel.INFO;
		traceTargetSpring.filters = ["org.springextensions.*"];
		Log.addTarget(traceTargetSpring);

		var traceTargetReflect:TraceTarget = new TraceTarget();
		traceTargetReflect.includeCategory = true;
		traceTargetReflect.includeDate = true;
		traceTargetReflect.includeLevel = true;
		traceTargetReflect.includeTime = true;
		traceTargetReflect.level = LogEventLevel.WARN;
		traceTargetReflect.filters = ["org.as3commons.reflect.*"];
		Log.addTarget(traceTargetReflect);
	}
       

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My classes that have been annotated with the [Autowired] metadata are not being autowired, what's wrong?

Make sure you have added this compiler switch to your project: -keep-as3-metadata += Autowired

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I don't need all of this fancy autowiring functionality on my objects, can I turn it off completely?

You can remove autowiring by setting the autowireProcessor property to null, like this:

      	applicationContext.autowireProcessor = null;
      	

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Is it possible to prevent the autowiring process from examining the class metadata for objects that are created by the container?

Add this attribute to your object declaration:

      	<object class="..." skip-metadata="true"/>
      	

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Spring Actionscript suffixes my property file URL with a random string to prevent it from being cached, can I turn this behavior off?

Add this attribute to your property file declaration:

      	<property file="strings.properties" prevent-cache="false"/>
      	

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Is it possible to skip the postprocessing step in the wiring pipeline for objects that are created by the container?

Add this attribute to your object declaration:

      	<object class="..." skip-postprocessors="true"/>