I think the docs mean that the private methods are accessible only within
that CFC's (and those that extend it) code, not CFCs that instantiate it
(that would make "private" pretty useless).
It does make sense that the metadata displays it. Just because something's
declared private doesn't mean that it's not documented.
----- Original Message -----
From: "S. Isaac Dealey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2003 8:35 PM
Subject: cfcomponent_cffunction_access="private"_--_what_the_!!??
> ... this strikes me as somewhat odd and I'm hoping someone
> here has run into this already:
>
> ColdFusion MX 6.1 Stand Alone - internal web server
> Windows 2000 Server SP4
>
> I have this CFC
>
> ontap.cfc
> <cfcomponent displayname="ontap">
> <cffunction name="tag" access="private">
> blah blah
> </cffunction>
>
> <cffunction name="getFunction" access="public">
> <cfmodule template="#this.tag('tapi')#" ...>
> <cfreturn true>
> </cffunction>
> </cfcomponent>
>
> temp.cfm
> <cfobject name="ontap" component="ontap">
> <cfset temp = ontap.getFunction('blah')>
>
> I've removed everything but the pertinent bits from these
> cfc's for the sake of explaining the problem... According to
> the documentation ( http://livedocs.macromedia.com )
> functions declared as private are supposed to be accessible
> to the CFC which declares the function and any CFC's that
> extend it. Now, if I use getMetaData() to view the metadata
> for the CFC the private method shows up. However, if I call
> the function ontap.getFunction() I get an error saying that
> the CFC doesn't have a function called "tag" ... which...
> according to getMetaData it does. It also doesn't show up if
> I output the cfc as <cfdump var="#ontap#"> ...
>
> If I change the access level of the tag function to package
> or public, however, everything is hunky dory.
>
> It seems that for all intents and purposes, specifying
> access="private" essentially comments out the function so
> that no code, no matter where it's placed or how its
> referenced can ever call the method. ??? ... (except it
> still shows up in the meta data)
>
> I'm really confused. Is my server hozed. Has anyone else
> seen this?
>
> While I could live with them potentially being
> access="package" or even public the nature of these
> functions I'm working with is that they shouldn't ever be
> called from anywhere other than the CFC that declared them
> or a CFC that extends it (what the documentation says is the
> definition of private), so it'd be really nice to be able to
> use that.
>
> s. isaac dealey 972-490-6624
>
> team macromedia volunteer
> http://www.macromedia.com/go/team
>
> chief architect, tapestry cms http://products.turnkey.to
>
> onTap is open source http://www.turnkey.to/ontap
>
>
>
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