Spicelib is a suite of AS3 libraries that can be used in Flex or pure AS3 projects. This chapter will give a quick overview over the available projects.
The focus for Spicelib is on general utility modules for AS3 development. Furthermore Spicelib serves as a support library for the other Spicefactory projects. So if you are using Parsley, Pimento or Cinnamon there are always Spicelib modules working under the hood. But they are completely independent and can be used without these other higher level frameworks (and also do not depend on each other, with a few exceptions).
Spicelib consists of the following projects:
Reflection
The reflection library contains convenient classes to reflect on AS3 classes,
methods and properties without the need for cumbersome parsing of XML output from
describeType. It includes convenient mechanism of mapping metadata
tags to concrete classes, to overcome the lack of type-safety of
AS3 metadata. All in all it is a library that should have been part of the core APIs
of the Flash Player.
For more information see 19 Reflection.
XML to Object Mapper
A small but powerful and flexibel XML-to-Object Mapper which allows you to map from XML to AS3 classes - in both directions. It comes with builtin mappers which cover the most common use cases like mapping properties of AS3 classes to XML attributes or child elements, but can be easily extended. For more information see 20 XML to Object Mapper.
Command Framework
A general abstraction for asynchronous operations. Allows grouping of commands for sequential or parallel execution and passing data from command results to subsequent commands in a decoupled fashion. For more information see 21 The Command Framework.
Logging
The logging framework allows to log custom messages from application code and use the configuration options to filter log output based on logger names (often corresponding to the name of the class containing the log statement) and log levels as a way to indicate the severity or importance of the log message. For more information see 22 Logging for Flash Applications.
This table lists the dependencies required for each of the projects. The dependencies are always included in the downloads of library releases.
| Reflection | spicelib-util |
| XML to Object Mapper | spicelib-reflect, spicelib-util |
| Command Framework | spicelib-reflect, spicelib-util |
| Logging | spicelib-util |