Thanks for the response. I actually already have this code in all of
my VO's - and in fact this code was working without any issue prior to
refactoring to use Cairngorm.

--- In cairngorm-documentation@yahoogroups.com, "Evan Gifford"
<evan@...> wrote:
>
> I've encountered this many times, it is caused by Flash not able to
make the
> connection with class information in the AMF or missing class
information.
>
> By default, AMF will only encode the binary equivelent of an XML
file. Just
> for fun, try writing that ObjectProxy out to the hard drive and open
it up
> with a text editor to see for yourself. Flash will try to the
> flash.net.getClassByAlias method to identify this structure as a native
> Class. If that method does not return a Class, it will default to using
> ObjectProxy because it doesn't have any way to make the connection
to the VO
> on the client side.
>
> The way to make the connection is to use the
flash.net.registerClassAlias()
> <http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/2/langref/flash/net/package.html>
method.
>
> Flex has a handy metadata way to mark this up; like
> [RemoteClass(alias="com.my.project.vo.ContactVO")]. Just put that
above your
> Class declaration and the Flex preprocessor will convert that into a
> registerClassAlias() call for you.
>
> You'll need the above line for every VO you'll be recieveing in the
form of
> AMF - that includes Local Shared Objects and if you use ByteArray to
> deep-copy an object.
>
> -Evan
>
> _____
>
> From: cairngorm-documentation@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:cairngorm-documentation@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
jeremysavoy
> Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 2:59 PM
> To: cairngorm-documentation@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [cairngorm-documentation] Re: Cannot assign arraycollection[i]
> value to VO variable due to ObjectProxy
>
>
>
> I forgot to add, here is how I'm creating the AC:
>
> __model.myAC = new ArrayCollection(myDataGrid.dataProvider.source);
>
> --- In cairngorm-documenta
> <mailto:cairngorm-documentation%40yahoogroups.com> tion@yahoogroups.com,
> "jeremysavoy"
> <jeremysavoy@> wrote:
> >
> > I have an array collection that is a collection of ContactVO items.
> > When I debug and look at the ArrayCollection, each item, [0], [1], etc
> > is of type ObjectProxy, and insed each of these there is an "object"
> > that then contains the ContactVO fields. I'm assuming they are
> > ObjectProxy because I implemented the fix outlined at the bottom of
> > this page:
> >
> >
> http://livedocs.
>
<http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/2/langref/flash/events/IEventDispatcher.html
> > adobe.com/flex/2/langref/flash/events/IEventDispatcher.html
> >
> > The problem, is that when I try to assign a ContactVO directly to an
> > item in the ArrayCollection, as here:
> >
> > for (var i:int = 0, i < __model.myAC.length, i++){
> > if (__model.myAC[i].Contact_ID == this.Contact_ID) {
> > __model.contact = __model.myAC[i];
> > }
> > }
> >
> > I then get the following error on the assignment line number (last
> > line of code above).
> >
> > TypeError: Error #1034: Type Coercion failed: cannot convert
> > mx.utils::ObjectProxy@10eee479 to com.myproject.vo.ContactVO
> >
> > If I assign each individual field from __model.myAC[i].* to
> > __model.contact.*, one at a time, then that works - but is undesirable
> > and extra work - I suppose I would just implement a function to do
this.
> >
> > Is there any better solution? I have tried the following but got a
> > similar but maybe different error:
> >
> > __model.contact = __model.myAC[i] as ContactVO;
> >
>