How do I distinguish between two imports with the same name in as3?

Question

I have two ArrayUtil classes I need to access from the same class - they each come from external libraries and have different code, so I can't just combine them.

How do I disambiguate them in the code?

I tried doing com.adobe.utils.ArrayUtil inline, and leaving the existing import, but that resulted in an undefined property com error.

Cheers

Answer 1

// In main class/timeline etc

import package1.*;
import package2.*;

var a1:package1.A = new package1.A();
var a2:package2.A = new package2.A();

Package 1 Class

// In package1.A.as
package package1 {

    public class A {

        public function A() {
            // constructor code
            trace("P1");
        }

    }

}

Package 2 Class

// In package2.A.as
package package2 {

    public class A {

        public function A() {
            // constructor code
            trace("P2");
        }

    }

}

Output

// Outputs
P1
P2

If you need to access static methods or properties. You would do something similar to the following:

import com.adobe.utils.ArrayUtil;

var a:Array = ["A", "B", "C"];
trace(com.adobe.utils.ArrayUtil.arrayContainsValue(a, "B")); // outputs true