Comments on: CF8 Structure Literal Gotcha

By: barneyb

barneyb — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:00:18 +0000

Tanguyr,

Of course. You can pass arbitrarily nested objects back up to CF, and I believe cyclic graphs are supported in both directions. Within the JS runtime, you've got the full scope of JS's syntax.

If you're nested object is entirely comprised of primitives, you can use CFSAVECONTENT and deserializeJson() UDF to synthesize arbitrary nesting. Just throw a JSON string into the CFSAVECONTENT and then deserialize it. Not very elegant, but at least it works.

By: Dan Wilson

Dan Wilson — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:08:29 +0000

I imagine Adobe also realizes the uselessness of the feature without nesting. After all, plenty of programmers work on the CF team. Certainly they use complex data structures.

I am looking for this to be fixed in a point release.

By: tanguyr

tanguyr — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:06:06 +0000

Hello Barney,

Can you create a nested struct-equivalent in server side javascript and pass it back to the cf layer?

Regs,
/t

By: Joe Rinehart

Joe Rinehart — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:41:04 +0000

Sort of a useless comment, but I have to say…no nesting? WTF?

By: Chris Phillips

Chris Phillips — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 17:51:25 +0000

I completely agree that they are crippled to near worthlessness.

If I can't use them like the following, then what's the point?

Struct = {'StructNotationInCF':{'HasTheFollowingProperties':["Can't be nested","Can't be used as function parameters","Really can't do much"]}};