Well, that's cool! Is it limited to CF7? or can us lowly CF6 folks make
use of it too?
I always say that I learn something new every day, and that's what makes
it worth getting out of bed in the morning! :o)
thanks for the schoolin'! :o)
Cheers,
Chris
Charlie Griefer wrote:
> Chris:
>
> no, he's passing the arguments properly using the argumentCollection.
>
> it's a "special" kind of argument (there's probably a better way to
> phrase it...) that, when passed in as a struct, is deconstructed into
> individual argument variables inside the method.
>
>
> On 1/4/07, Christopher Jordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Dude, you're passing in a structure, but you're init is expecting two
>> separate variables one of which is numeric.
>>
>> When you call a CFC, the Arguments scope (read: structure) already
>> contains everything you sent. If you want to pass in a structure
>> yourself, then change your init to read:
>>
>> <CFArgument Name="MyStruct" Type="struct" required="true">
>>
>> Then you'd access your structure like, MyStruct.rs.Firstname or
>> MyStruct.rs.ID.
>>
>> You could also skip the CFArgument tag altogether and just access them
>> like this:
>>
>> Arguments.MyStruct.rs.FirstName, and Arguments.MyStruct.rs.ID
>>
>> Hope that helps.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Chris
>>
>> Daniel Short wrote:
>>
>>> Well Josh, it's time to get your space helmet, because indeed there is a
>>> gaping hole (as best I can tell anyway) :). My sample code defines a
>>> recordset with just a single row, with a type of numeric, and a valid value.
>>>
>>> After all, here's my test code:
>>>
>>>
>>> <!--- Get a query --->
>>> <cfset rs = QueryNew("ID,FirstName", "integer,varchar") />
>>> <cfset QueryAddRow(rs) />
>>> <cfset QuerySetCell(rs, "ID", 3) />
>>> <cfset QuerySetCell(rs, "FirstName", "Daniel") />
>>>
>>> <cfset TestStruct = StructNew() />
>>> <cfloop list="#rs.ColumnList#" index="col">
>>> <cfset TestStruct[col] = rs[col] />
>>> </cfloop>
>>>
>>> <cfdump var="#TestStruct#" />
>>>
>>> <!--- Pass the newly created struct into the object to run each setter --->
>>> <cfset MyObject = CreateObject("component",
>>> "cfcs.test").init(ArgumentCollection = TestStruct) />
>>>
>>> <cfdump var="#MyObject.getSnapShot()#" />
>>>
>>> As you can see, I'm generating a super simply query, and then passing it
>>> into the object, and somewhere along the line CF is getting completely
>>> confused about the type...
>>>
>>> Dan
>>>
>>>
>>> On 1/4/07 4:39 PM, "Josh Nathanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> I've only gotten this error when I've accidentally passed a null value (for
>>>> example the query returned empty) and it's expecting a numeric.
>>>>
>>>> Make sure that when you're initially building the structure from the query,
>>>> that you're indeed passing in all the values you expect, by dumping the
>>>> query before you convert it into a struct. Then, after conversion into the
>>>> struct, dump the struct as well to make sure it's still the right value.
>>>>
>>>> I'd be surprised if it was actually failing on a numeric value. This would
>>>> open a hole in the time-space continuum.
>>>>
>>>> -- Josh
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Daniel Short" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>> To: "CF-Talk" <[email protected]>
>>>> Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 2:23 PM
>>>> Subject: Issue with "not of type numeric" when sending value to CFC
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I have a blog post which details my problem here:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.dansshorts.com/?day=1/4/2007#blog360
>>>>>
>>>>> What's happening is that if I take a recordset row, and build a structure
>>>>> based on it's columns, and then pass that structure as an
>>>>> ArgumentCollection
>>>>> to a CFC, the method tosses a "not of type numeric" on a value that is
>>>>> indeed numeric.
>>>>>
>>>>> Has anyone else seen a problem like this? The only way around it has been
>>>>> to
>>>>> set the type to "any" and then just accept any old crap that someone wants
>>>>> to pass in.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Daniel Short
>>>>> Web Application Architect
>>>>> lynda.com, Inc.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>
>
>
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