Did you know you can attach a function to a structure and access the
structure with the 'this' keyword?
<cfscript>
aclient = structNew();
aclient.myId = 32344;
function getMyId(){
return this.myId;
}
aclient.getMyId = getMyId;
</cfscript>
<cfdump var="#aclient#"/>
<cfdump var="#aclient.getMyId()#"/>
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Further you can create an 'instance' of the object with struct copy and edit
the features
<cfscript>
bclient = structCopy(aclient);
bclient.myId = 33333;
</cfscript>
<cfdump var="#bclient#"/>
<cfdump var="#bclient.getMyId()#"/>
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
You can also extend the object by adding more functions
<cfscript>
function blarg(){
return 1;
}
bclient.blarg = blarg;
</cfscript>
<cfdump var="#bclient#"/>
That seems pretty OO to me. You'd think Macromedia would want more people to
know about this. Or did every one else know this and I am a late bloomer?
You could do stuff like this in 5 but the 'this' was missing.
Rob
http://treebeard.sourceforge.net
http://ruinworld.sourceforge.net
Scientia Est Potentia
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