Flex : Is it possible to stop a remote call? - actionscript-3

I search for a long time, but I still not found the answer.
In common case, we keep the token of a remote method call, Flex -> Java for example.
But, if the client know that the current call is not needed anymore, how stopping the server processing ?
With an asyncToken, is it possible to stop a remote call ?
Thanks for your answer.

As I understood it, an AsyncToken just provides extra data for some operation. You'll need to access that operation to cancel.
IF you're calling an HTTPService, you use the cancel() method.
If you're using a WebService, you should be able to call getOperation() method and then cancel() the corresponding operation.
If you're using a RemoteObject you should be able to call getOperation() method and then cancel() on the corresponding operation.

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Discord.py assistance - How does the library forcibly call an asynchronous command function?

I have used many discord API wrappers, but as an experienced python developer, unfortunately I somehow still do not understand how a command gets called!
#client.command()
async demo(ctx):
channel = ctx.channel
await channel.send(f'Demonstration')
Above a command has been created (function) and it is placed after its decorator #client.command()
To my understanding, the decorator is in a way, a "check" performed before running the function (demo) but I do not understand how the discord.py library seemingly "calls" the demo function.....?? Is there some form of short/long polling system in the local imported discord.py library which polls the discord API and receives a list of jobs/messages and checks these against the functions the user has created?
I would love to know how this works as I dont understand what "calls" the functions that the user makes, and this would allow me to make my own wrapper for another similar social media platform! Many thanks in advance.
I am trying to work out how functions created by the user are seemingly "called" by the discord.py library. I have worked with the discord.py wrapper and other API wrappers before.
(See source code attached at the bottom of the answer)
The #bot.command() decorator adds a command to the internal lists/mappings of commands stored in the Bot instance.
Whenever a message is received, this runs through Bot.process_commands. It can then look through every command stored to check if the message starts with one of them (prefix is checked beforehand). If it finds a match, then it can invoke it (the underlying callback is stored in the Command instance).
If you've ever overridden an on_message event and your commands stopped working, then this is why: that method is no longer being called, so it no longer tries to look through your commands to find a match.
This uses a dictionary to make it far more efficient - instead of having to iterate over every single command & alias available, it only has to check if the first letters of the message match anything at all.
The commands.Command() decorator used in Cogs works slightly different. This turns your function into a Command instance, and when adding a cog (using Bot.add_cog()) the library checks every attribute to see if any of them are Command instances.
References to source code
GroupMixin.command() (called when you use #client.command()): https://github.com/Rapptz/discord.py/blob/24bdb44d54686448a336ea6d72b1bf8600ef7220/discord/ext/commands/core.py#L1493
As you can see, it calls add_command() internally to add it to the list of commands.
Adding commands (GroupMixin.add_command()): https://github.com/Rapptz/discord.py/blob/24bdb44d54686448a336ea6d72b1bf8600ef7220/discord/ext/commands/core.py#L1315
Bot.process_commands(): https://github.com/Rapptz/discord.py/blob/master/discord/ext/commands/bot.py#L1360
You'll have to follow the chain - most of the processing actually happens in get_context which tries to create a Context instance out of the message: https://github.com/Rapptz/discord.py/blob/24bdb44d54686448a336ea6d72b1bf8600ef7220/discord/ext/commands/bot.py#L1231
commands.Command(): https://github.com/Rapptz/discord.py/blob/master/discord/ext/commands/core.py#L1745

Achieve Do after and before using ES6 Proxy

I've a View and Utility classes and wanted to hook-in the Utility method once View's job is done. So wanted to call the utility method (to add behavior to the view) once View's render call is done.
Using ES6 Proxy API, Is there a way to execute a method before / after executing the main method ? (aka method interceptions)
Similar to YUI3 Do API.
http://yuilibrary.com/yui/docs/api/classes/Do.html
Yes there is a way. Actually I'm trying to build the same thing and as long as you use a synchronous context I already got it working. Have a look at the code examples in the issue I created for my problem: stack overflow when returning an ES6 proxy through a promise
What you need to do to intercept the call is to use the ES6 proxy to get notified of the get-call that takes place to retrieve the function before the method is actually called.
In my example you can see that you get all the information about the call like what method was called with which parameters and also who called it and on which target it was originally called.

Handle specific exception that is not related to an exchange

I created a custom component for a proprietary service. If this service is down i get noticed via a call of a callback function. I am throwing a custom exception at this point.
Sending exchanges to the producer/ consumer will yield no errors or exceptions (all seems to fine).
So i need to implement an emergency stop if my custom exception is thrown. I read a bit about exception handling in camel. I think i need a context-scoped onException(MyException.class).??? but what then?
Is this working on exceptions that are called without relation to an exchange? If this is working how to handle it. I want to stop certain routes in this case.
here you can find to stop routes from a route: http://camel.apache.org/how-can-i-stop-a-route-from-a-route.html.
If you do the call of the proprietary service in a route you do have an exchange btw.
kind regards,
soilworker
I created a little workaround: I set a boolean i the callback method is called. On each call of process i check this boolean and if true i throw an exception.
With this the exception is within normal camel exception handling and onException could be used.

Windows Phone 8 Return value from getresponseCallBack method?

I am trying to make a generic connectivity class in my Windows Phone 8 app. This class should be used whenever i need to send a POST request to the service.
In a particular use case i need to call the service, display the response and navigate the user away from the current page.
I am able to successfully achieve the first 2 objectives using the connectivity class. This is because the connectivity class is not part of the UI. So is there a way the GetResponseCallBack method can inform the calling method that it has received the response and then i can navigate the user?
Hope i was able to ask my question clearly.
Thanks!
I have managed to find a work-around for now. Not sure if it is the right way to get the response of the async task. But i am sharing it for the benefit for others who may be facing similar issue.
What i have done is, i have defined the GetResponseCallBack as a public method in the class calling the async task method. Later i pass the same GetResponseCallBack as a parameter to the beginGetResponse method in the GetRequestStreamCallBack method.
This way i am able to bring the control flow back to the phoneApplicationPage after the asyncTask executes, thus allowing me to handle some events on the UI thread.
Hope it helps!

Flex WebService invokeAllPending never called

I been using the WebService and Operation classes of Flex Framework for a while, and after some ups and downs (more downs than ups, haha) I'm in process of refactoring all its uses with some utility classes/wrappers.
After browsing a little of the code of mx.rpc.soap.Operation I noticed that when you use the method "send" and the web service is not ready then the call is queued to an internal array (pendingInvocations:Array in line 1142). But the funny thing is that the invocations in the queue are never called again.
This is a bug or there is something I'm doing wrong?
I'm considering extending mx.rpc.soap.Operation, overriding "send" and testing if there are invocation queued, calling invokeAllPending (a mx_internal method that pops all the queued invocations) my self.
But the other problem is that that method is mx_internal, so I don't know if Adobe is gonna change it any time soon.
Any advice?
Thanks in advance
It's not a bug. Take a look at the definition for AbstractWebService; it defines a method called unEnqueueCalls (which is right up near the top of the list of awkward method names that I've seen :)). This method loops through all the operations in the webservice and invokes the pending calls for each operation by calling that invokeAllPending method you found.
unEnqueueCalls is itself called from the WebService class, in the wsdlFault and wsdlHandler methods, one of which runs when your WSDL is finished loading.
So, everything is all accounted for; you don't need to override anything.