What happened to containsExtent method of Extent?

[KenBuja]

This method was in the 1.3 version of the API but isn't showing up in the 2.x version. Is there a reason it was dropped?

[DasaPaddock · Accepted solution]

It was replaced with the contains() method that accepts any Geometry type.
http://help.arcgis.com/en/webapi/flex/apiref/com/esri/ags/geometry/Extent.html#contains()

[KenBuja]

It's too bad that now there's the extra step of creating a polygon when determining whether the extent of several unioned extents is contained within another extent.

[DasaPaddock]

I don't follow why there's now an extra step? You can still pass an Extent to the contains() method since Extent is a type of Geometry.

[KenBuja]

Ah...thanks for pointing that out. I didn't take note of the inheritance.