what do I know

Ok, I need help. I’ve been able to discover the coolness that is getQualifiedClassName() and getDefinitionByName() and describeType() when it comes to working with introspection/reflection in ActionScript 3. I am stuck however. I want to get a hold of all the class names available in the compiled Flash movie at runtime. I’m writing a library that will look for custom metadata on classes and associate functionality with the classes (or possibly objects) if they are annotated in a specific way. Right now, short of asking for a list of those classes from the developer, I don’t know of a way to build a bootstrap function/class that will introspection into the Flash movie and get me a list of them. I was thinking maybe if I could find a way to programmatically access the manifest file that would work, but again I can’t find a way to do that.

Does anyone know how to do this or am I doomed to introspecting on objects and programmer declared references rather than classes?

UPDATE: I found a feature request in the Flex 3 JIRA database. Basically it’s not in Flex yet, nor is it supported by the Flash movie, but 4 people have voted for the feature thus far. That being said, please vote for this feature so we can get one of the final pieces to reflection built into Flex. BTW - If anyone wants questions answered with regards to Flex, check out the flexcoders mailing list over on Yahoo. Everyone probably knows about it but I’m slow.