One question that's always asked is
"Where is this function being used?".
A simple search can find that. But the next question is always:
"How often?"
You could say
"Well, this page uses it x amount of times, and this other page uses it
y."
Original question:
If you store an object in a variable like this:
<cfset myObject = createObject("component","testObject").init()>
Is it possible to interrogate some method or metadata associated with
testObject in order to find out what variable name it has been stored
within
(myObject in this case)?
Sammy Larbi's answer:
<cffunction name="getTheNameOfTheVariableThatContainsMe" output="true">
<cfargument name="variablesScope" required="true">
<cfset this.testkey = createUUID()>
<cfloop list="#structkeylist(variablesScope)#" index="name">
<cfif isStruct(variablesScope[name]) and
structKeyExists(variablesScope[name],"testKey") and
variablesScope[name].testKey eq this.testKey>
#name#,
</cfif>
</cfloop>
<cfset structDelete(this,"testKey")>
</cffunction>
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Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 7:17 PM
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Subject: Re: [CFCDEV] Does a CFC know what variable name it's stored
within?
Beat me to it! I was scratching my head on that one too. From a bigger
picture perspective, what are you trying to accomplish Ed?
~d
On 12/13/06, Andrew Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I am curious to know why one would want to know this information though?
Andrew Scott
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Of Ed Griffiths
Sent: Wednesday, 13 December 2006 11:57 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [CFCDEV] Does a CFC know what variable name it's stored
within?
Hi
Thank you to everyone who replied about this issue.
Cheers
Ed
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