Flash only Demo?

[mikebritton]

May I suggest an all-AS3 example, sans Flex?  I'm having trouble with things like the PipeAwareModule utility extending MovieClip instead of ModuleBase, resulting in the need for an init method to account for MovieClip not accepting constructor arguments.

[puremvc]

There'll be more demos in time certainly. But the PipeAwareModule class in the demo doesn't need the class it's extending to take any arguments.

This is the constructor:

       
public function PipeAwareModule( facade:IFacade )
{
    super();
    this.facade = facade;
}

Its call to super() doesn't pass any arguments. If this class were extending MovieClip, it could still take arguments to its own constructor. Am I missing something important?

-=Cliff>

[mikebritton]

Here's my problem in detail, so pardon the massive code dump.  Hopefully my issue can be solved easily; the main issue is my attempt to rearchitect an existing application with Pipes before writing a simple boilerplate :-)

I have a Shell MovieClip that kicks it all off.

:

package
{
import com.multicastmedia.shell.ApplicationFacade;
import flash.display.DisplayObject;
import flash.display.MovieClip;

public class Shell extends MovieClip
{
public static const NAME:String = "Shell";

private var facade:ApplicationFacade = ApplicationFacade.getInstance( NAME );

public function Shell():void
{
facade.startup( this );
}

public function addLivePlayer(livePlayer:DisplayObject):void
{
addChild(livePlayer);
}

public function addSlides(slides:DisplayObject):void
{
addChild(slides);
}

public function removeLivePlayer(livePlayer:DisplayObject):void
{
removeChild(livePlayer);
}

public function removeSlides(slides:DisplayObject):void
{
removeChild(slides);
}
}
}

Picture three modules, a live video player, a slide display, and shell.  My Shell's ApplicationFacade:

:

package com.multicastmedia.shell
{

    import org.puremvc.as3.multicore.patterns.facade.Facade;
    import com.multicastmedia.shell.controller.StartupCommand;

public class ApplicationFacade extends Facade
{
// Notification constants
        public static const STARTUP:String                  = 'startup';
        public static const CONNECT_SHELL_TO_LIVEPLAYER:String = 'connectshelltoliveplayer';
        public static const CONNECT_SHELL_TO_LIVESLIDES:String = 'connectshelltoliveslides';
        public static const CONNECT_MODULE_TO_LIVEPLAYER:String = 'connectmoduletoliveplayer';
        public static const CONNECT_MODULE_TO_SLIDES:String = 'connectmoduletoslides';
        public static const CONNECT_MODULE_TO_SHELL:String = 'connectmoduletoshell';

        public function ApplicationFacade( key:String )
        {
            super(key);   
        }

        public static function getInstance( key:String ):ApplicationFacade
        {
            if ( instanceMap[ key ] == null ) instanceMap[ key ] = new ApplicationFacade( key );
            return instanceMap[ key ] as ApplicationFacade;
        }
       
        override protected function initializeController( ) : void
        {
            super.initializeController();           
            registerCommand( STARTUP, StartupCommand );
        }
       
        /**
         * Application startup
         *
         * @param app a reference to the application component
         */ 
        public function startup( app:Shell ):void
        {
            sendNotification( STARTUP, app );
        }
}
}


My Shell's StartupCommand executes:

:

package com.multicastmedia.shell.controller
{
import com.multicastmedia.shell.view.ShellJunctionMediator;
import com.multicastmedia.shell.view.ApplicationMediator;
import com.multicastmedia.shell.view.LivePlayerModuleMediator;
import com.multicastmedia.shell.view.SlideModuleMediator;
import com.multicastmedia.shell.ApplicationFacade;
import fl.motion.SimpleEase;

import org.puremvc.as3.interfaces.ICommand;
import org.puremvc.as3.multicore.interfaces.ICommand;
    import org.puremvc.as3.multicore.interfaces.INotification;
    import org.puremvc.as3.multicore.patterns.command.SimpleCommand;

import org.osflash.thunderbolt.Logger;

public class StartupCommand extends SimpleCommand implements ICommand
{

override public function execute( note:INotification ):void
{
Logger.debug("StartupCommand:execute");

facade.registerMediator(new LivePlayerModuleMediator());
facade.registerMediator(new SlideModuleMediator());
facade.registerMediator(new ShellJunctionMediator());

var app:Shell = note.getBody() as Shell;
facade.registerMediator(new ApplicationMediator( app ));

sendNotification(ApplicationFacade.CONNECT_SHELL_TO_LIVEPLAYER);
}
}
}

The first mediator, LivePlayerModuleMediator, registered is really the only one related to this issue; when I understand why this is erroring out, I'll be able to fix for all modules.  So, I register this mediator, which looks like this:

:

package com.multicastmedia.shell.view
{
import org.puremvc.as3.multicore.interfaces.INotification;
import org.puremvc.as3.multicore.patterns.mediator.Mediator;
import org.puremvc.as3.multicore.utilities.pipes.plumbing.Pipe;
    import org.puremvc.as3.multicore.utilities.pipes.plumbing.TeeMerge;
    import org.puremvc.as3.multicore.utilities.pipes.plumbing.Junction;
    import org.puremvc.as3.multicore.utilities.pipes.interfaces.IPipeFitting;

import com.multicastmedia.common.IPipeAware;
import com.multicastmedia.common.JunctionMediator;
import com.multicastmedia.apps.live.LivePlayerModule;
import com.multicastmedia.shell.ApplicationFacade;

import org.osflash.thunderbolt.Logger;

public class LivePlayerModuleMediator extends Mediator
{
        public static const NAME:String = 'LivePlayerModuleMediator';
       
        public function LivePlayerModuleMediator()
        {
            super(NAME, new LivePlayerModule());
        }

        /**
         * LivePlayerModule related Notification list.
         */
        override public function listNotificationInterests():Array
        {
            return [ ApplicationFacade.CONNECT_SHELL_TO_LIVEPLAYER
                   ];   
        }
       
        /**
         * Handle LivePlayerModule related Notifications.
         *
         * Connecting modules and the Shell to the LivePlayerModule.
         */
        override public function handleNotification( note:INotification ):void
        {
            switch( note.getName() )
            {
                case  ApplicationFacade.CONNECT_SHELL_TO_LIVEPLAYER:
Logger.debug("CONNECT_SHELL_TO_LIVEPLAYER");
                    var module:IPipeAware = note.getBody() as IPipeAware;
                    var pipe:Pipe = new Pipe();
                    module.acceptOutputPipe(JunctionMediator.STDLOG,pipe);
                    livePlayer.acceptInputPipe(JunctionMediator.STDIN,pipe);
                break;
            }
        }
       
        /**
         * The Logger Module.
         */
        private function get livePlayer():LivePlayerModule
        {
            return viewComponent as LivePlayerModule;
        }
}
}

My LivePlayerFacade is instantiated and started.  It looks like this:

:

package com.multicastmedia.apps.live.liveplayer
{
import com.multicastmedia.apps.live.liveplayer.model.vo.ConfigVO;
import com.multicastmedia.apps.live.LivePlayerModule;
import org.puremvc.as3.multicore.interfaces.IFacade;
import org.puremvc.as3.multicore.patterns.facade.Facade;
import com.multicastmedia.apps.live.liveplayer.controller.StartupCommand;
import com.multicastmedia.apps.live.liveplayer.controller.GetLiveEventCommand;
import com.multicastmedia.apps.live.liveplayer.controller.LiveConnectionCommand;
import com.multicastmedia.apps.live.liveplayer.controller.LiveStreamControlCommand;
import com.multicastmedia.apps.live.liveplayer.controller.SharedObjectCommand;
import com.multicastmedia.apps.live.liveplayer.controller.PollForSlideCommand;
import org.osflash.thunderbolt.Logger;

import flash.display.StageDisplayState;
import flash.events.FullScreenEvent;

public class LivePlayerFacade extends Facade implements IFacade
{

// Notification name constants only
        public static const STARTUP:String = "startup";
        public static const CONFIG_LOADED:String = "config_loaded";
public static const GET_EVENT_INFO:String = "get_event_info";
public static const GET_SETTINGS:String = "get_settings";
public static const SETTINGS_RETURNED:String = "settings_returned";
public static const EVENT_LOADED:String = "event_loaded";
public static const EVENT_COMPLETE:String = "event_complete";
public static const CONNECT:String = "connect";
public static const CONNECTED:String = "connected";
public static const CONNECTION_FAILED:String = "connection_failed";
public static const POLL_LIVE_EVENT:String = "poll_live_event";
public static const POLL_DURATION_COMPLETE:String = "poll_duration_complete";
public static const POLL_COMPLETE:String = "poll_complete";
public static const POLL_DURATION:String = "poll_duration";
public static const POLL_FOR_SLIDE:String = "poll_for_slide";
public static const POLL_SLIDE_RETURNED:String = "poll_slide_returned";
public static const COUNTDOWN_COMPLETE:String = "countdown_complete";
public static const START_COUNTDOWN:String = "start_countdown";
public static const START_PREROLL:String = "start_preroll";
public static const START_POSTROLL:String = "start_postroll";
public static const TIME:String = "time";
public static const BUFFER_FULL:String = "buffer_full";
public static const DESTROY_NETSTREAM:String = "destroy_netstream";
public static const PAUSE_LIVE_STREAM:String = "pause_live_stream";
public static const STOP_LIVE_STREAM:String = "stop_live_stream";
public static const RESUME_LIVE_STREAM:String = "resume_live_stream";
public static const TOGGLE_FULLSCREEN:String = "toggle_fullscreen";
public static const ADJUST_VOLUME:String = "adjust_volume";
public static const ADJUST_PLAYER_SCALE:String = "adjust_player_scale";

// Failures
public static const EVENT_FAILED:String = "event_failed";
public static const GENERAL_FAILURE:String = "general_failure";

public function LivePlayerFacade( key:String ):void
{
super(key);
}

public static function getInstance( key:String ):LivePlayerFacade
        {
            if ( instanceMap[ key ] == null ) instanceMap[ key ] = new LivePlayerFacade( key );
            return instanceMap[ key ] as LivePlayerFacade;
        }

/**
* Map all Commands to Notifications here
*/
        override protected function initializeController( ):void
        {
            super.initializeController(); 

            registerCommand( STARTUP, StartupCommand );
            registerCommand( GET_EVENT_INFO, GetLiveEventCommand );
            registerCommand( GET_SETTINGS, SharedObjectCommand );
registerCommand( CONNECT, LiveConnectionCommand );
registerCommand( POLL_LIVE_EVENT, GetLiveEventCommand );
registerCommand( PAUSE_LIVE_STREAM, LiveStreamControlCommand );
registerCommand( RESUME_LIVE_STREAM, LiveStreamControlCommand );
registerCommand( STOP_LIVE_STREAM, LiveStreamControlCommand );
registerCommand( ADJUST_VOLUME, LiveStreamControlCommand );
        }

        public function startup( app:LivePlayerModule ):void
        {
Logger.debug("LivePlayerFacade::startup");
            sendNotification( STARTUP, app );
        }
}
}


The command it executes is a MacroCommand which initializes the liveplayer model and view using separate commands.  Here's the command that initializes the view.  This is where the problem occurs.

:

package com.multicastmedia.apps.live.liveplayer.controller
{
import com.multicastmedia.apps.live.liveplayer.view.components.ControlsView;
import com.multicastmedia.apps.live.liveplayer.view.components.CountdownView;
import LivePlayer;
import com.multicastmedia.apps.live.LivePlayerModule;

import org.puremvc.as3.multicore.interfaces.ICommand;
import org.puremvc.as3.multicore.patterns.command.SimpleCommand;
import org.puremvc.as3.multicore.interfaces.INotification;

import com.multicastmedia.apps.live.liveplayer.view.mediator.ControlsMediator;
import com.multicastmedia.apps.live.liveplayer.view.mediator.ApplicationMediator;
import com.multicastmedia.apps.live.liveplayer.view.mediator.VideoDisplayMediator;
import com.multicastmedia.apps.live.liveplayer.view.mediator.CountdownMediator;

import org.osflash.thunderbolt.Logger;

public class ViewPrepCommand extends SimpleCommand implements ICommand
{

        override public function execute( note:INotification ):void
        {
var lp:LivePlayer = note.getBody() as LivePlayer;

Logger.debug("ViewPrepCommand::execute");

            facade.registerMediator( new ApplicationMediator( note.getBody() ) );
            // BLOWUP: TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference. at com.multicastmedia.apps.live.liveplayer.controller::ViewPrepCommand/execute()[C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs\mediaplayer_live_working\mediaplayer_live\src\com\multicastmedia\apps\live\liveplayer\controller\ViewPrepCommand.as:35]
facade.registerMediator( new VideoDisplayMediator( lp.videoDisplayView ));
facade.registerMediator( new ControlsMediator( lp.controlsView ) );
facade.registerMediator( new CountdownMediator( lp.countdownView ));
        }
}
}

I'm sure my mistake is obvious to the experienced eye, but I am stuck nonetheless.  Any idea what could be happening?


Thanks in advance.

[puremvc]

Your class that you're passing in is called Shell, so your ApplicationFacade.startup method signature is not right. It should be:

:

        public function startup( app:Shell ):void
        {
    Logger.debug("ApplicationFacade::startup");
            sendNotification( STARTUP, app );
        }

-=Cliff>