ActionScript Developer's Guide to Robotlegs

Preface; Robotlegs: Something a little bit special; Who this book is for; Who this book is not for; Conventions used in this book; Using code examples; Safari® Books Online; How to contact us; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Robotlegs is a lightweight framework for ActionScript 3; 1.1 What does Robotlegs actually do?; 1.2 Do you need a framework at all?; 1.3 Less boilerplate code is a good thing...; Chapter 2: The Robotlegs dream...; 2.1 80% of the problems can be solved with 20% of the API; 2.2 Coding for Robotlegs shouldn't tie you to the framework; 2.3 Robotlegs aims to enable and not dictate; 2.4 Most AS3 applications benefit from the MVCS approach; 2.5 Testing, testing! (We test, and we make it easy for you to test); 2.6 Some final things every Robotlegs cadet should know; Chapter 3: Anatomy of a Robotlegs application; 3.1 Joel's Personal Kanban; 3.2 Lindz's Mosaic Design Tool; 3.3 How a Robotlegs application gets things done; 3.4 Getting to grips with Robotlegs architecture; 3.5 User stories as implemented in Robotlegs; 3.6 All of this is possible because of the Robotlegs Injector; Chapter 4: Automated Dependency Injection; 4.1 So, what exactly is Automated Dependency Injection?; 4.2 You already use Dependency Injection; 4.3 There are different ways to inject dependencies; 4.4 Automated DI gets around the need to 'pass the parcel', but keeps code flexible; 4.5 How does Robotlegs Injection work?; Chapter 5: The Robotlegs context in action; 5.1 Provide the context with a root-view; 5.2 Ask it to run startup()-immediately or when you're ready; 5.3 Use startup() to provide your injection rules, map your mediators to views and commands to events; 5.4 Shutting down a Context; 5.5 Now you have some Context; Chapter 6: The CommandMap in action; 6.1 A Command is a concise single-purpose controller object; 6.2 Commands are triggered by events; 6.3 Commands can be any class with an 'execute' method; 6.4 Commands should do their thing and then die; 6.5 Commands rely on their injections to be useful; 6.6 Commands know about the injector, command map, mediator map and context view; 6.7 Commands can also dispatch events; 6.8 Great command names pay dividends; 6.9 Use helper classes for shared logic; 6.10 Detain and release when you need your command to hang around; Chapter 7: Models and services: How are they different?; 7.1 Models and Services usually extend Actor; 7.2 They don't listen, they only talk; 7.3 Use your API through a Command; 7.4 Distinguishing Models from Services; 7.5 Classes that don't dispatch events to the shared event dispatcher don't need to extend Actor; 7.6 Configuring services; 7.7 Working with non-Actor models and services (including third party code); 7.8 Model design tips for Robotlegs; 7.9 Managing the relationships between models and services; Chapter 8: Connecting views with Mediators; 8.1 Introducing the MediatorMap; 8.2 Mediating your view components; 8.3 Why can't Mediators be injected into other objects?; 8.4 Working with complex composite views; 8.5 Using the same mediator with more than one view; 8.6 A good Mediator is just a mailman; Chapter 9: Working with Robotlegs: Rich Examples; 9.1 Feature implementation walk-through: Mosaic Tool; 9.2 Feature implementation walk-through: Personal Kanban App; 9.3 Wait, I want more examples!; Chapter 10: Testing your Robotlegs application; 10.1 Your test provides the injections; 10.2 Testing models; 10.3 Testing services; 10.4 Testing commands; 10.5 Testing mediators; Chapter 11: Power-ups; 11.1 Bootstraps can break up fat contexts; 11.2 The ContextEvents help keep control; 11.3 Tag methods with [PostConstruct] to run them after injection is complete; 11.4 Use Signals between complex views and their mediators; 11.5 Modular and multiple-context Robotlegs; 11.6 Extend Robotlegs with utilities and add-ons; 11.7 ViewMap-injection for your views; 11.8 Mediator map performance; Troubleshooting tips; Problem: Injection doesn't occur; Problem: Things work for a while and then mysteriously stop; Problem: Event dispatch does not work as expected; Problem: Mediator isn't running onRegister; Problem: Handlers in the mediator are running repeatedly; Error: Injector missing rule for X; Warning: Duplicate mapping in the injector; Error: Call to a possibly undefined method X; Where to get more help; Swiftsuspenders: The power behind the Robotlegs Injector; What does Swiftsuspenders actually do?; We think limited metadata is a good thing; Colophon;