Saving objects data to txt

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HiI'm populating a datagGrid with external csv data, by loading it, converting it to an object, then loading into the data provider.Would I be better off (and is it possible) to not use csv, but objects instead?So have in a txt file...{id:128, name:"Moi"},{id:156, name:"You"} // my actual objects have about 10 keys each...load the txt file, split it at the commas into an array of objects, and use that as the dataprovider?Or do you have to serialize from dataprovider -> objects -> csv (or xml), then csv -> objects -> dataprovider?I have a feeling AS3 has a max string size it'll load, so maybe that would kill things.Cheers for taking a look.

kglad · Accepted Answer

you could use json or xml in your text file and directly assign the loaded string to your dp.

sinious · Answer

Max string length should be very tolerably long, but consider any multi-byte characters and the ramping up of urlencoded values using up multiple characters. The string length I recall is 2^30 - 1 (or 1,073,741,823 bytes). I think you'd hit your network transfer timeout before transferring a string that big . Another vote for JSON here as well and your CSV is eerily already similar to it, like a faux JSON.

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