[FLEX-28469] Accordion.selectedElement should be typed as AccordionContent, not IVisualElement

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Not A Problem
• Affects Version/s: Adobe Flex SDK Next
• Component/s: Spark: Accordion
• Environment: Affected OS(s): All OS Platforms; Affected OS(s): All OS Platforms; Language Found: English
• Assignee: Adobe JIRA
• Reporter: Adobe JIRA
• Created: 08/Sep/11 15:20
• Updated: 07/Oct/11 14:43
• Resolved: 27/Sep/11 16:13

Description

Steps to reproduce:
1. Look at Accordion.selectedElement getter

Actual Results:
It's a IVisualElement

Expected Results:
It should be AccordionContent

Workaround (if any):
Cast it

An underlying assumption in Accordion is that its elements are always AccordionContents. IVisualElement is unnecessarily generic. Perhaps the method name should also be changed to selectedAccordionContent or selectedContent for clarity. The selectedElement name appears to be taken from ViewStack, but ViewStack is much more generic.

This change will require refactoring method names and removing AccordionContent casts throughout all of the Accordion files.