510384 - API Additions for String, Number and XML

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Tamarin Graveyard :: Virtual Machine, defect)

Description

[Chris Peyer]

I would like to ask Adobe Flex Developer team to support some additional API's what currently missing in Flex 2 and 3. That makes my live and other developers easier.
Thank you very much.

Number:
isNaN(*) //instead isNaN(Number(String))
isNumber(*) //See bug ASC-2943

Additional API's:

String
compareToIgnoreCase
equalsIgnoreCase
startsWith
endsWith
toCharArray():Array
trim():String
ltrim():String
rtrim():String
isEmpty():Boolean //ignore white spaces, tabs, new lines - example: validate text in mx:TextArea component See bug SDK-14797

Array
clone():Array
contains(Object)

XML/XMLList:
addItemAt();
removeItemAt();
concat(XML)


Advantages:
1) I don't need to tell my team to use my API instead of use Adobe SDK function, For example if I will override isNaN() - bug ASC-2943
2) The Flex developer who starting a new project or moved to another company doesn't need to copy his/her API handler from an old project. The first reason that is illegal.
3) Some API(s) what I listed above, required to use for\while loops, what works slower using ActionScript. I would recommend implementing those API(s) in Flash Player as native functions. 

This bug transferred from: http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/ASC-3663

Comment 1

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

Tamarin isn't maintained anymore. WONTFIX remaining bugs.