How to send binary data from AS3 through Java to a filesystem?

Question

I\'ve got XML data in AS3 that needs to be compressed, validated on my Java Google App Engine servlet then saved to a file in Google Cloud Storage. Later that file will be opene

Answer 1

Here is the code that I use to save an xml. I send the data to PHP but I would think it would work the same way for you... I haven't had any trouble with it.

var createXMLURL:URLRequest = new URLRequest("createXML.php");
createXMLURL.method = URLRequestMethod.POST;
var Variables:URLVariables = new URLVariables();
Variables.xmlString = xml.toXMLString();
Variables.filename = filename;
createXMLURL.data = Variables;
var loader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
loader.dataFormat = "VARIABLES";
loader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, xmlCreated);
loader.load(createXMLURL);

Let me know if you have any questions about what some of the variables are since I did not include their declarations (I think they are pretty easy to figure out).

Now this doesn't send that data in binary format like you were asking for, but I don't know why you wouldn't be able to convert the string to binary once you receive it in java if you really need the raw bytes.