JSON encoding for Flash Player 11 and AIR 3.0 - json

Question

I have the following code:
thinkGearSocket = new Socket();
var configuration : Object = new Object();
configuration["enableRawOutput"] = true;
configuration["format"] = "Json";
thinkGearSocket.connect("127.0.0.1", 13854);
thinkGearSocket.addEventListener(ProgressEvent.SOCKET_DATA, dataHandler);
thinkGearSocket.writeUTFBytes(JSON.encode(configuration));
It works for flash player 10 but for flash player 11 I get an error saying:
1061: Call to a possibly undefined method encode though a reference with static type flash.net:socket
I had the same error for the decoding with this:
private function dataHandler(e : ProgressEvent){
//read data from the socket
var packetString : String = thinkGearSocket.readUTFBytes(thinkGearSocket.bytesAvailable);
thinkGearSocket.flush();
//split the data into an array
var packets : Array = packetString.split(/\r/);
var data:Object;
//iterate through array elements
for each (var packet:String in packets){
//sometimes the packet is empty
if(packet != "") {
try {
data = JSON.decode(packet);
//trace(packet);
} catch ( jError: JSONParseError) {
// do exception handling here
label1.text = jError.text;
}
But I changed:
data = JSON.decode(packet);
to:
data = JSON.parse(packet);
and now I don't get an error for that part. how do I fix the encoding part for Flash player 11 and AIR 3.0?

Answer 1

You need to use the stringify method instead of encode for Flash 11 or greater.
stringify(value:Object, replacer:* = null, space:* = null):String
You can see more information in the AS3 livedocs for stringify.