Comments on: New issue of GroovyMag

By: brian woods

brian woods — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 12:06:55 +0000

I have tried to build the flex contacts app.

I am using netbeans 6.7 rc1 and grail 1.1.1

I have tried to build the files as shown in the article.

I get the following errors, any ideas, thanks

3 Errors found.

Error /main.mxml:101
Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant: Contact.

100: import mx.controls.Alert;
101: private function doSelect(c:Contact):void {
102: selectedContact = c;

Error /main.mxml:113
Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant: Contact.

112: }
113: private function deleteContact(selectedContact:Contact):void {
114: contactService.remove(selectedContact);

Error /main.mxml:117
Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant: Contact.

116: }
117: private function updateContact(contact:Contact):void {
118: contactService.update(selectedContact);

By: zebulon303

zebulon303 — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 14:42:27 +0000

Found a solution for the delete problem:

replace
def remove(Contact contact){
contact.delete(flush:true)
}
with
def remove(Contact contact){
def contactToDelete = get(contact.id)
contactToDelete.delete(flush:true)
}

By: Jeremy Anderson

Jeremy Anderson — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 14:21:13 +0000

I would look here first (http://www.grails.org/Debug+Plugin)

By: zebulon303

zebulon303 — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 13:47:35 +0000

I confirm the delete function is not working …

How do you debug grails ? (Everything is ok on the flex side)

By: paulfeaviour

paulfeaviour — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 09:12:28 +0000

Thanks for getting back Jeremy – at least I know the restarts are expected. I’ll have another go at the tutorial to see if I can find out why the delete function isn’t working.

Paul

By: Jeremy Anderson

Jeremy Anderson — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 19:15:09 +0000

1. Unfortunately when you make changes to the Flex app you need to restart the application in order for the changes to take effect. I noticed this as I was developing the sample app as well and haven’t found a way around it.

2. BJ had some issues with this as well, but I’m not sure what caused it as it’s always worked for me.

By: paulfeaviour

paulfeaviour — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 19:07:52 +0000

Hey Great article – I too am looking forward to part two.

Just a couple of questions, as I am knew to Flex+Grails and am unsure if it’s me or the example (probably me seeing as the guy above seems to have it working…):

1. after making some modifications to code I sometimes have to restart the app (in NetBeans IDE) as my browser goes all blank (I see the background only), is this normal or do I have a problem somewhere?

2. I can not get delete (in the application) to work – I have checked over the code and compared to GitHub but all appears to be ok locally. Should this work with the example code? putting an alert around the deleteContact function I see that the event is being raised so I am wondering if it’s something to do with my service or domain object?

Thanks,

Paul

By: Ed

Ed — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 20:57:49 +0000

Got it working, by the way. Both the app and git. You can delete the first post about the time out and the flex view not showing up.

Thanks

-Ed

By: Ed

Ed — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 20:52:00 +0000

Liked your article and looking forward to part two.

Good luck with your training. I can relate, by the way.

If you ever get out here to Denver, there is some killer mountain biking, that’s for sure.

Good luck with the book and everything else!

-Ed

By: Ed

Ed — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 20:12:47 +0000

Jeremy,

Liked your article in groovymag, but I can’t get the app to display the flex view. I followed along the article and may have fat fingered something so I then tried to get the project from your git repo.

$ git clone git://github.com/punkisdead/flex-contacts-groovy-mag.git
Initialized empty Git repository in /cygdrive/c/temp/flex-contacts-groovy-mag/.git/
github.com[0: 65.74.177.129]: errno=Connection timed out
fatal: unable to connect a socket (Connection timed out)

Fails every time. Any ideas on whats’ up?