No, no reason, except a structure with numbers as keys is essentially an array anyway. That doesn't help me with best practices for getting the data into and out of the instance.
-----Original Message----- From: Qasim Rasheed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2006 12:28 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Using arrays in a simple bean Is there are reason you cannot use Structure for meeting sponsors? e.g. <cfset variables.instance.sponsors = StructNew() /> <cfset variable.instance.sponsors[sponser1] = 'Name of Sponsor' /> ...... HTH On 12/21/06, Everett, Al (NIH/NIGMS) [C] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm using a bean cfc for an instance of a meeting. Each meeting can > have between 0 and 10 sponsors. (These are just string values.) > > Rather than have setSponsor1, getSponsor1, setSponsor2 etc. and have > 10 different properties in the instance, I thought I'd put it into an > array. This has two other side effects: Memory isn't taken up by > undefined variables and it should easily allow for future > expansion/contraction if the business rules should change. > > I'm having a bit of trouble getting my head around the best way to do > the getter/setter methods. Has anyone done something similar that I > could crib for ideas? > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:264768 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
