Flex data services limitations (FlexBuilder generated wsdl code sucks)

Feb 12 2009

The post saved me a ton of time. It’s a bit embarrassing for Adobe in my mind to ship something this buggy. I was seriously running into these issues within an hour of trying to connect Flex to our .NET Soap based services.

“MyMethod can’t return an object of with the type name MyMethodResult.”

You’re fracking kidding me right?  Wow. (and there are more along these lines)

http://lukesh.wordpress.com/2008/11/24/very-important-limitations-of-flex-data-services/

After fighting with the above and other bugs I was rewriting a lot of the generated code from FlexBuilder and it was just pointless. And sure, generated code isn’t the greatest to rely on anyway, but give me a break. In the end I used the WebORB presentation server to handle the communication to our .NET code, as well as for generation of the initial proxy classes for the client and I have to say it was an excellent experience compared to the crap built into FlexBuilder.