Jeff Small wrote:
>>
>> 5) One practice that has become a "best practice" of sorts is to
>> return "this" from your init method so that you can method chain, as
>> shown below. Granted, not everybody follows this practice, as it's
>> more personal preference, but it's just what I'm used to now.
>
> I'm struggling with "this". I don't understand even from Seans's post what
> purpose it serves to return "this" when you're using something like CFOBJECT
> or "CreateObject()" which creates an instance of an object anyway...
Because that works with cfobject and createobject(), but not with
cfinvoke. (read on)
>> <cffunction name="setDSN" access="private" output="false" returntype="void"
>> hint="Sets the name of the datasource">
>> <cfargument name="dsName" type="string" required="true" hint="The
>> datasource name to set">
>> <cfset variables.DSN = arguments.dsName>
>> </cffunction>
If you have your setters return "this" too, you can chain them
together:
<cfset variables.myCFC.setDSN("dsn").setMode("READONLY")>
Jochem
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