How to get the associated URLRequest from Event.COMPLETE launched using URLLoader

Question

So, let's say we want to load some XML -

var xmlURL:String = 'content.xml';
var xmlURLRequest:URLRequest = new URLRequest(xmlURL);
var xmlURLLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader(xmlURLRequest);
xmlURLLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, function(e:Event):void{
 trace('loaded',xmlURL);
 trace(XML(e.target.data));
});

If we need to know the source URL for this particular XML document, we have this variable to tell us, right? Now imagine that the xmlURL variable does not help us - perhaps we want to load 3 XML documents named sequentially and we want to use throwaway variables inside the for loop:

for(var i:uint = 3; i > 0; i--){
 var xmlURLLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader(new URLRequest('content'+i+'.xml'));
 xmlURLLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, function(e:Event):void{
  trace(e.target.src); // I wish this worked...
  trace(XML(e.target.data));
 });
}

Suddenly it's not that simple, right?

I hate that you cannot just say e.target.src or something else - is there a good way to associate URLLoaders with the URL from which they downloaded the data? Am I missing something? It seems unintuitive to me.

Answer 1

for (var i:uint = 3; i > 0; i--) {
    var src:URLRequest = new URLRequest('content'+i+'.xml');
    var xmlURLLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader(src);
    xmlURLLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, function(req:URLRequest):Function {
        return function(e:Event):void {
            trace(req); // Should work
            // whatever you need to do
        }
    }(src));
}

, .

Answer 2

sberry2A . , URLLoader - , URLStream, URLLoader - .

:

public class URLLoader extends EventDispatcher{     
    private var _urlRequest:URLRequest; //the built-in URLLoader doesn't give you any access to the requested URL...
    private var _stream:URLStream;
    private var _dataFormat:String;// = "text"
    private var _data:*;
    private var _bytesLoaded:uint;// = 0
    private var _bytesTotal:uint;// = 0

    public function get request():URLRequest { return _urlRequest;}     
    public function get fileName():String { return _urlRequest.url.match(/(?:\\|\/)([^\\\/]*)$/)[1];}       
    public function get dataFormat():String { return _dataFormat;}      
    public function get data():* { return _data; }      
    public function get bytesLoaded():uint { return _bytesLoaded; }     
    public function get bytesTotal():uint { return _bytesTotal; }       

    public function URLLoader(request:URLRequest = null){
        super();
        _stream = new URLStream();
        _stream.addEventListener(Event.OPEN, openHandler);
        _stream.addEventListener(ProgressEvent.PROGRESS, progressHandler);
        _stream.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, completeHandler);
        _stream.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, ioErrorHandler);
        _stream.addEventListener(SecurityErrorEvent.SECURITY_ERROR, securityErrorHandler);
        _stream.addEventListener(HTTPStatusEvent.HTTP_STATUS, httpStatusHandler);
        if (request != null){
            load(request);
        };
    }
    public function load(request:URLRequest):void {
        _urlRequest = request;
        _stream.load(_urlRequest);
    }
    public function close():void{
        _stream.close();
    }

    private function progressHandler(event:ProgressEvent):void {
        _bytesLoaded = event.bytesLoaded;
        _bytesTotal = event.bytesTotal;
        dispatchEvent(event);
    }
    private function completeHandler(event:Event):void{
        var bytes:ByteArray = new ByteArray();
        _stream.readBytes(bytes);
        switch (_dataFormat){
            case "binary":
                _data = bytes;
                break;
            case "variables":
                if (bytes.length > 0){
                    _data = new URLVariables(bytes.toString());
                    break;
                };
            case "text":
            default:
                _data = bytes.toString();
                break;
        };
        trace("URLLoader: (" + fileName + "): " + event.type);
        dispatchEvent(event);
    }
    private function openHandler(event:Event):void {
        trace("URLLoader: ("+fileName+"): " + event.type +" "+_urlRequest.url);
         dispatchEvent(event);
    }
    private function securityErrorHandler(event:SecurityErrorEvent):void {
        trace("URLLoader ("+fileName+"): " + event.type + " - " + event.text);
        dispatchEvent(event);
    }
    private function httpStatusHandler(event:HTTPStatusEvent):void {          
        dispatchEvent(event);
    }   
    private function ioErrorHandler(event:IOErrorEvent):void {
         trace("URLLoader ("+fileName+"): " + event.type + " - " + event.text);
        dispatchEvent(event);
    }       
}

request fileName. URLRequest COMPLETE-, : var req:URLRequest = URLLoader(evtObj.target).request;