flash.utils.Endian - Adobe® Flex® 4 Language Reference (Flex 4)

Package	flash.utils
Class	public final class Endian
Inheritance	Endian Object

Language Version:

ActionScript 3.0

Runtime Versions:

Flash Player 9, AIR 1.0

The Endian class contains values that denote the byte order used to represent multibyte numbers. The byte order is either bigEndian (most significant byte first) or littleEndian (least significant byte first).

Content in Flash Player or Adobe^® AIR™ can interface with a server by using the binary protocol of that server, directly. Some servers use the bigEndian byte order and some servers use the littleEndian byte order. Most servers on the Internet use the bigEndian byte order because "network byte order" is bigEndian. The littleEndian byte order is popular because the Intel x86 architecture uses it. Use the endian byte order that matches the protocol of the server that is sending or receiving data.

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	Property		Defined By
		constructor : Object A reference to the class object or constructor function for a given object instance.	Object
		prototype : Object [static] A reference to the prototype object of a class or function object.	Object

Public Methods

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	Method		Defined By
		hasOwnProperty(name:String):Boolean Indicates whether an object has a specified property defined.	Object
		isPrototypeOf(theClass:Object):Boolean Indicates whether an instance of the Object class is in the prototype chain of the object specified as the parameter.	Object
		propertyIsEnumerable(name:String):Boolean Indicates whether the specified property exists and is enumerable.	Object
		setPropertyIsEnumerable(name:String, isEnum:Boolean = true):void Sets the availability of a dynamic property for loop operations.	Object
		toLocaleString():String Returns the string representation of this object, formatted according to locale-specific conventions.	Object
		toString():String Returns the string representation of the specified object.	Object
		valueOf():Object Returns the primitive value of the specified object.	Object

Public Constants

	Constant		Defined By
		BIG_ENDIAN : String = "bigEndian" [static] Indicates the most significant byte of the multibyte number appears first in the sequence of bytes.	Endian
		LITTLE_ENDIAN : String = "littleEndian" [static] Indicates the least significant byte of the multibyte number appears first in the sequence of bytes.	Endian

Constant Detail

BIG_ENDIAN

Constant

public static const BIG_ENDIAN:String = "bigEndian"

Language Version:

ActionScript 3.0

Runtime Versions:

Flash Player 9, AIR 1.0

Indicates the most significant byte of the multibyte number appears first in the sequence of bytes.

The hexadecimal number 0x12345678 has 4 bytes (2 hexadecimal digits per byte). The most significant byte is 0x12. The least significant byte is 0x78. (For the equivalent decimal number, 305419896, the most significant digit is 3, and the least significant digit is 6).

A stream using the bigEndian byte order (the most significant byte first) writes:

	 12 34 56 78

LITTLE_ENDIAN

Constant

public static const LITTLE_ENDIAN:String = "littleEndian"

Language Version:

ActionScript 3.0

Runtime Versions:

Flash Player 9, AIR 1.0

Indicates the least significant byte of the multibyte number appears first in the sequence of bytes.

A stream using the littleEndian byte order (the least significant byte first) writes:

	 78 56 34 12