Using the SWX ActionScript Library to make SWX Twitter API calls at SWX: SWF Data Format

If you don't want to work manually with movie clips (and you will probably not want to on a daily basis), you can use the SWX ActionScript Library instead. This library provides you with a completely abstract (and recommended) way of working with SWX RPC.

Here's how to display the text of the last status update of your friends using the SWX ActionScript Library:

import org.swxformat.*;
 
var swx:SWX = new SWX();
swx.gateway = "http://swxformat.org/php/swx.php";
swx.encoding = "POST";
swx.debug = true; 
 
var callParameters:Object =
{
    serviceClass: "Twitter",
    method: "getNumFriendsUpdates",
    args: ["aral", 1],
    result: [this, resultHandler]
}
 
swx.call(callParameters);
 
function resultHandler(event:Object)
{
    // Display the text property of the first result.
    trace (event.result[0].text);
}

I hope you enjoy working with the SWX Twitter API (also check out the Flickr API while you're at it) and, again, please feel free to use the public SWX gateway here on swxformat.org in your own mashups and applications.

SWX: SWF Data Format

Using the SWX ActionScript Library to make SWX Twitter API calls

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