Finding data files in local directory

[Xopods]

Say I have a bunch of XML files in the directory with my web app (or in a
subdirectory) and I want the app to be able to create a list of all available
files, without resorting to a separate index.xml file to list them. How do I do
that? They'll be named according to a certain convention, like FC080415.xml
where the numbers represent the date created, in year-month-day format so
they're in chronological order.

If I put them in a directory without an index.html file and make a URLRequest
to that directory, I can get a directory listing with a bunch of junk mixed in
and could probably write some code to separate the file names out, but that
can't be the "right" way to do it. Flex 3 has a File class that has functions
for getting a directory listing, but it only works for AIR apps.

[Gaurav J]

In the standalone player you can not do file operations unless you compile your
app with the file system access i.e. -use-network= false.

If you app is deployed over a webserver and is opened in a browser. You should
use some other mechanism to fetch it from the server (you can not access the
file system from the player)

You can use a jsp/php/coldfusion or something else to return the list of file
name?

[Xopods]

That's what I was afraid of. I was hoping that I wouldn't have to learn how to have Flex interact with JSP quite yet, since it's another layer of complexity, but I may not have any choice.

[ntsiii]

If the Flex app runs under AIR instead of in a browser, it can access the local file system.

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