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Similar to the Java Reflection API, ActionScript Reflection can do the following:
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I'm a big fan of introspection / reflection... but unfortunate for us 'Flexies' DescribeType is very slow making purely reflected implementations impractical at best; the more it is used the slower your application will perform. It is a powerful feature - one that should be used with constraint and common sense. As an alternative - a simple manifest could be used to minimize the performance hit.