Flex: Read bytearray - apache-flex

Question

I use the following to upload a file to Flex:
private var filer:FileReference;
protected function button1_clickHandler(event:MouseEvent):void
{
var fd:String = "Files (*)";
var fe:String = "*";
var ff:FileFilter = new FileFilter(fd, fe);
filer = new FileReference();
filer.addEventListener(Event.SELECT, onFileSelect);
filer.browse(new Array(ff));
filer.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,
function (e:Event):void {
e.currentTarget.data.toString();
}
);
}
private function onFileSelect(e:Event):void {
filer.load();
}
And my file looks like this:
Here is the original file: http://sesija.com/up/1.txt
I need to read the uploaded file and parse it. The problem is that in my e.currentTarget.data.toString(); I get only '1' and not the rest of the String.
Any idea on how to successfully read this entire txt file?

Answer 1

The data property is a ByteArray. Instead of using the toString method (which apparently treats NULL byte as end of string), use specific read methods of the ByteArray class like readByte, readInt etc.
var array:Array = [];
var ba:ByteArray = e.currentTarget.data as ByteArray;
while(ba.bytesAvailable != 0){
array.push(ba.readByte());
}
trace(array.join(", "));
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