Flash Builder custom metadata for Parsley and FlexXB

Flash Builder 4.5 added code completion for metadata tags. Adding support for custom metadata tags however requires building a swc containing a metadata.xml file outlined in hard to find documentation. They could have just added a preferences panel but this is a good way for developers to include custom metadata info right in their library swcs.

Two libraries I use quite often and leverage metadata tags heavily are Parsley and FlexXB. Neither of them have included this metadata.xml file in their latest releases so I have created 2 extra swcs containing just the metadata info using xml files found here and here respectively. I'm sharing them here in case anyone else wants to use them.

• parsley-metadata-2.4.swc
• flexXB-metadata-2.1.swc

Note that they just contain the metadata info not the rest of the library. I could have bundled it in, but if the library recieves an update that still doesn't include the metadata file it will need to be integrated again.

Comments

[Alex Ciobanu]

Hello Yonas,

Just wanted to let you know I just released the 2.2.0 version of FlexXB and the metadata.xml descriptor file is embedded in the swc.

Thanks,
Alex

[Rico Leuthold]

This is just great - thank you very much. Hope this will make it into the release of Parsley soon.
- rico

[Mussat]

Someone can do the same for spicelib ?
It will be very greate

Thanks
Sébastien