ActionScript 2.0 Components Language Reference
Delta interface > Delta.getOperation()

Delta.getOperation()

Availability

Flash Player 7.

Edition

Flash MX Professional 2004.

Usage

delta.getOperation()

Parameters

None.

Returns

A number; returns the operation that was performed on the item within the original collection.

Description

Method; returns the operation that was performed on this item within the original collection. Valid values for this are DeltaPacketConsts.Added, DeltaPacketConsts.Removed, and DeltaPacketConsts.Modified.

You must either import mx.data.components.datasetclasses.DeltaPacketConsts or fully qualify each constant.

Example

The following example calls the getOperation() method:

while(dpCursor.hasNext()) {
    dpDelta = Delta(dpCursor.next());
    op=dpDelta.getOperation();
    trace("DeltaPacket source is: " + dpDelta.getDeltaPacket().getSource());
    switch(op) {
      case mx.data.components.datasetclasses.DeltaPacketConsts.Added:
        trace("***In case DeltaPacketConsts.Added ***");
      case mx.data.components.datasetclasses.DeltaPacketConsts.Modified: {
        trace("***In case DeltaPacketConsts.Modified ***");
    }
}

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