I'm trying to fetch some data serialized with out.writeObj() using an ajax call (that part works well), I get my data:

netColarLogStats::LogDataTableModel
{
title="Stats"
keyHeader=""
valHeader=""
formatedKeys=["may":"May","april":"april","feb":"feb","mar":"mar","jan":"jan"]
data=["may":2120,"april":1728,"feb":756,"mar":3456,"jan":1256]
}

But when I try to de-serialize it in the javascript it fails (seem to work fine when done outside of browser)

I get this error in the browser js console:

finished loading: "http://127.0.0.1:8580/data".
Uncaught TypeError: Object netColarLogStats::LogDataTableModel.formatedKeys has no method 'of'  :8580/pod/sys/sys.js:7840

LogDataTableModel.formatedKeys is a map [Str:Str] so not sure why it would say it does not have an of method ??

Any ideas ?

Facet support isn't complete in JavaScript - which is needed to fully implement serialization.

I'm not using facets, but I suppose that internally it needs Facet support.

That's too bad, I think serialization + Ajax would have been super cool.

Any ideas about when that could work- Is it a lot of work? or more a question of flushing the design ?

What would be my best alternative in the meantime ? passing data in XML format ? other ?

Thanks.

Yeah the internal APIs need to them to work properly. Deserialization should actually work tho - its the encoding side that needs a bit more work.

Facets are at the top of my list to implement in JavaScript - I will be needing them very soon in SkySpark, so I would imagine in the next few weeks it will be working.

In the meantime, you're probably best rolling our own simple string format. Fantom makes it pretty easy to parse string content, so I think that'd be the easiest thing.

I'm only doing de-serialization and it seem to be working except for that map. Will try to narrow the issue down a bit - don't think it has to do with facets.

Oh yeah, that's a bug. I pushed a fix - see if that works for you.

Thanks, was gonna report that just now :) tracked it down with chrome console. Will see if fix helps, but i notices it also will call this.readMap() and that method does not seem to exists in sys.js (unless it's in another js ??) .. anyway will try tip and see if that helps.

Actually there is a readMap in ObjDecoder, but it's called just readMap rather than fanx_ObjDecoder.prototype.readMap

It has an empty "TODO" comment ... so maybe it's juts not finished, though the code in it looks fine.

EDIT: never mind: I see now it's commented out - I guess not ready yet.

For now I just replaced the map by my own associative object with it's own simple string serialization , using @Serializable { simple = true }

Works good.