a grand renaming so that the most significant portion of the name comes first

flex-practice/custom-03d3-lists/ListApp.as

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+package
+{
+    import flash.events.MouseEvent;
+    import mx.collections.ArrayCollection;
+    import mx.controls.Alert;
+    import mx.controls.Button;
+    import mx.controls.List;
+    import mx.controls.Text;
+    import mx.core.Application;
+    import mx.events.ListEvent;
+    import mx.rpc.events.FaultEvent;
+    import mx.rpc.events.ResultEvent;
+    import mx.rpc.http.HTTPService;
+
+    public class ListApp extends Application
+    {
+        [Bindable]
+        public var employeeList:ArrayCollection = new ArrayCollection();
+        public var employeesService:HTTPService;
+        public var textMessage:Text;
+        public var mylist:List;
+        public var mybutton:Button;
+
+        public static const employeesServiceUrl:String =
+            "http://localhost:18080/employees.xml";
+
+        public function appComplete():void
+        {
+            _initButtonControl();
+            _initListControl();
+            _initEmployeesService();
+            trace(this + " initialized!");
+        }
+
+        private function _initButtonControl():void
+        {
+            trace(this + "._initButtonControl()");
+            mybutton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, requestEmployees);
+        }
+
+        private function _initListControl():void
+        {
+            trace(this + "._initListControl()");
+            mylist.addEventListener(ListEvent.ITEM_CLICK, showMessage);
+            trace(this + ".mylist.dataProvider = " + mylist.dataProvider);
+        }
+
+        private function _initEmployeesService():void
+        {
+            trace(this + "._initEmployeesService()");
+            employeesService = new HTTPService();
+            employeesService.url = employeesServiceUrl;
+            employeesService.method = "GET";
+            employeesService.resultFormat = "object";
+            employeesService.addEventListener("result", resultHandler);
+            employeesService.addEventListener("fault", faultHandler);
+        }
+
+        public function requestEmployees(event:Event):void
+        {
+            trace(this + ".requestEmployees(" + event + ")");
+            employeesService.send();
+        }
+
+        public function resultHandler(event:ResultEvent):void
+        {
+            trace(this + ".resultHandler(" + event + ")");
+            trace(this + " event.result = " + event.result);
+            trace(this + " event.headers = " + event.headers);
+            trace(this + " event.statusCode = " + event.statusCode);
+            trace(this + " event.result.employees = " + event.result.employees);
+            employeeList = event.result.employees.employee as ArrayCollection;
+            // mylist.dataProvider = employeeList;
+            trace(this + ".employeeList = " + employeeList);
+        }
+
+        public function faultHandler(event:FaultEvent):void {
+            var faultstring:String = event.fault.faultString;
+            Alert.show(faultstring);
+        }
+
+        public function showMessage(event:Event):void
+        {
+            textMessage.text = "You selected: " +
+                event.currentTarget.selectedItem.firstName + ' ' +
+                event.currentTarget.selectedItem.lastName;
+        }
+    }
+}

flex-practice/custom-03d3-lists/ListControl.mxml

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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<loc:ListApp xmlns:loc="*"
+    xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
+    applicationComplete="appComplete();">
+  <mx:Style source="listapp.css" />
+  <mx:Button id="mybutton" label="Return Employees" />
+  <mx:List id="mylist" styleName="basic-list"
+      dataProvider="{employeeList}" labelField="firstName" />
+  <mx:Text id="textMessage" styleName="basic-text" />
+</loc:ListApp>

flex-practice/custom-03d3-lists/employees.py

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+import sys
+from wsgiref.simple_server import make_server
+
+
+EMPLOYEES_XML = """\
+<employees>
+    <employee id="101" code="233">
+        <firstName>Bob</firstName>
+        <lastName>Costas</lastName>
+    </employee>
+    <employee id="102" code="233">
+        <firstName>Bob</firstName>
+        <lastName>Sagat</lastName>
+    </employee>
+    <employee id="103" code="233">
+        <firstName>Harbor</firstName>
+        <lastName>Oaks</lastName>
+    </employee>
+    <employee id="104" code="233">
+        <firstName>Oak</firstName>
+        <lastName>Barrel</lastName>
+    </employee>
+    <employee id="105" code="233">
+        <firstName>Sag</firstName>
+        <lastName>Harbor</lastName>
+    </employee>
+</employees>
+"""
+EMPLOYEES_XML_LEN = str(len(EMPLOYEES_XML))
+CROSSDOMAIN_XML = """\
+<cross-domain-policy>
+  <allow-access-from domain="*"/>
+</cross-domain-policy>
+"""
+CROSSDOMAIN_XML_LEN = str(len(CROSSDOMAIN_XML))
+
+
+def main(sysargs=sys.argv[:]):
+    server = make_server('0.0.0.0', 18080, employees_app)
+    server.serve_forever()
+    return 0
+
+
+def employees_app(environ, start_response):
+    path_info = environ.get('PATH_INFO', '/').strip(' /')
+    if path_info == 'employees.xml':
+        start_response('200 OK', [
+            ('content-type', 'text/xml'),
+            ('content-length', EMPLOYEES_XML_LEN),
+        ])
+        return [EMPLOYEES_XML]
+    elif path_info == 'crossdomain.xml':
+        start_response('200 OK', [
+            ('content-type', 'text/xml'),
+            ('content-length', CROSSDOMAIN_XML_LEN),
+        ])
+        return [CROSSDOMAIN_XML]
+    else:
+        start_response('404 Not Found', [('content-type', 'text/plain')])
+        return ['sorry charlie']
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    sys.exit(main())
+
+# vim:filetype=python

flex-practice/custom-03d3-lists/listapp.css

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+ListApp {
+    backgroundColor: #ffffff;
+    backgroundAlpha: 0;
+    horizontalAlign: left;
+    verticalGap: 15;
+    horizontalGap: 15;
+}
+
+.basic-list {
+    width: 200;
+    height: 200;
+}
+
+.basic-text {
+    paddingTop: 20;
+}