Harsanalif's Random Rambling

Since Plurk released it’s API last December, it’s no brainer that I, as Plurk user and Flash programmer, to try to implement Plurk functionality into Flash app.
I encounter problem with crossdomain issue (really common in this line of work ), but thanks to Plurk developer responsiveness, they already add crossdomain.xml in their site root (http://www.plurk.com/crossdomain.xml).

When developing Plurk app using AS3, I also use a very helpful class to manage API call between Flash and Plurk.
Inspired from ZeroFractal’s FacebookBridge simplicity and ease of use, I write PlurkBridge as a simple Actionscript 3 bridge class to enable easy communication between Flash app and Plurk API.
This class doesn’t wrap every Plurk API method, but instead written so it be able to call any method available.

All in all, PlurkBridge is:

1. Simple
   Plurk API call and handling can be done as few as two step. PlurkBridge initialization and load call (see example below).
2. Consistent
   This PlurkBridge class remain flexible and independent from any change or update on the API by Plurk Developer.
   You don’t need to learn new method/parameter here, just use Plurk API official documentation page directly.
3. Lightweight
   PlurkBridge class itself only have 7kb in size.

Example code:

import com.harsanalif.plurkbridge.PlurkBridge;

var API_KEY:String = "myPlurkAPIKey";
var USERNAME:String = "myUsername";
var PASSWORD:String = "myPassword";
var METHOD:String = "/API/Users/login";

var bridge:PlurkBridge = new PlurkBridge();
bridge.load(METHOD, { api_key:API_KEY, username:USERNAME, password:PASSWORD }, onComplete);

function onComplete(result:Object):void
{
   if(result.error_text)
   {
      //Error handler
      trace(result.error_text);
   }
   else
   {
      //Success
      trace(result.user_info.display_name);
   }
}

You can see the Flash demo in action using PlurkBridge class here:
PlurkBridge Demo

You can download the source and example here:
PlurkBridge

Known issue:

• Plurk native error (invalid_login, invalid_plurk_id, etc) can only be handled correctly with Flash Player 10 because of limitation in HTTP Header handling in previous Flash Player version.
  I suggest you target Flash Player 10 when using this class.
• Also, as pointed by Focus1921 in his blog post, this class can’t handle image related API method, specifically, API method that need to use multi-part POST request.
  I have tried various method on this but no success. For now, if you really need upload image functionality for Plurk API, you can use revised version of Plurk AS3 Bridge class by  Focus1921 (LINK). Special thanks to Focus1921 for this workaround
  If you can find other workaround/hack to be able to use /API/Users/updatePicture & /API/Timeline/uploadPicture in AS3, please let me know.