If CF is typeless, and the argument isn't required, then IMHO it shouldn't throw an error if you pass it an empty var - especially since (I believe) you can't set a variable explicitly to NULL.
Thanks,
Evan
>You'll have to try something liske this:
>
><cfargument name="promoItem" type="numeric" required="no" default="-1">
>
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>Evan Lavidor wrote:
>
>> I've got a function inside of a CFC. One of the arguments is defined
>> as follows:
>> <cfargument name="promoItem" type="numeric" required="no">
>>
>> If the value that I pass to it is empty ("") then I get an error that
>> "The argument PROMOITEM passed to function processInfo() is not of
>> type numeric."
>>
>> If I change the type to string, then it works great. But I don't want
>> it to be a string. The same behavior happens with a date (passing
>> blank string to an argument of type="date").
>>
>> Any ideas? This is really strange behavior to me. As CF is typeless,
>> shouldn't it be converting the empty string to a null number - or
>> something like that?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Evan
>>
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