Basically, if you want your webservice to be consumed over the web by other technologies then your return needs to be a string (but that string can be anything - XML Encoded String (not a ColdFusion XML object) Array etc).
"This e-mail is from Reed Exhibitions (Gateway House, 28 The Quadrant, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 1DN, United Kingdom), a division of Reed Business, Registered in England, Number 678540. It contains information which is confidential and may also be privileged. It is for the exclusive use of the intended recipient(s). If you are not the intended recipient(s) please note that any form of distribution, copying or use of this communication or the information in it is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error please return it to the sender or call our switchboard on +44 (0) 20 89107910. The opinions expressed within this communication are not necessarily those expressed by Reed Exhibitions." Visit our website at http://www.reedexpo.com -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Small To: CF-Talk Sent: Fri Mar 23 16:03:44 2007 Subject: Re: Just a question/discussion point RE: Web services.. > If I recall correctly, it's actually discussed directly within the CF > documentation. But basically, it boils down to creating CFC instances to > replace structures. For example, if you wanted to have information about a > person in a structure, you would instead define and use a CFC to represent > that information. Your CFC would have nothing but CFPROPERTY tags, which > would essentially be used to provide named properties that would > correspond > to your structure keys; something like this: > > <cfcomponent> > <cfproperty name="FirstName" type="string" ...> > <cfproperty name="LastName" type="string" ...> > </cfcomponent> Man, I've re-read that three times now, and I'm just NOT following it. I'm so sorry Dave, but isn't the CFC the webservice? So you'd call for instance, "getPerson()" but that's not a method? > Then, within your web service, instead of returning a structure (or an > array > of structures), you'd return a Person object (or an array of Person > objects). But would an "object" be a cross platform "object" simply because I said it was? Who defines what a "person object" is? Is a "person object" the same in PHP as it is in CF as it is in .Net? Again, I apologize, but there seems to be something here that I'm just missing. This all stems from a web service that I'm trying to access that's just not returning ANYTHING that resembles the results I'm expecting. So I decided to just try and write my own "web service" that could be invoked remotely and return live data. I got that working really easily, but then realized that I was just returning CF "objects" (structs, arrays, query objects) that were fine in CF, but would be worthless to anyone else. That's when I started to realize that maybe there's a problem with the form of the data that this web service was returning, and I started down this road... I just haven't had an opportunity to work with WSDL and web services or XML very much, so I'm just in WAY unfamiliar territory... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 The most significant release in over 10 years. Upgrade & see new features. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJR Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:273643 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
