On 6/19/07, Nathan Wells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Assuming these are data objects with defined public properties, everything > >should just work, I think. If they're objects with methods instead of public > >properties, I've seen that work in some cases, but would not want to go so > >far as to say it should "just work". > > How would the function definition in the CF look like though? > > Let's say we have a component defined in zip.cfc to represent a zip code that > looks like this: > <cfcomponent> > <cfproperty name="City" type="string"> > <cfproperty name="State" type="string"> > <cfproperty name="Zip" type="string"> > <cfproperty name="Latitude" type="numeric"> > <cfproperty name="Longitude" type="numeric"> > </cfcomponent> > > Then we have a different component called zipInfo.cfc that lies in the same > package as zip.cfc. The zipInfo component has a method that returns a zip > object that looks like this: > > <cffunction name="getZipInfo" access="remote" returntype="zip"> > <cfargument name="zip" type="string" required="true"> > .... > </cffunction> > > Now let's say we want to add a function to the zipInfo component that would > return an array of zip objects. I think the real question that Eric P is > asking is, "How would a function that returns an array of objects be defined?" > > This doesn't work: > <cffunction name="zipCodesInCity" access="remote" returntype="zip[]"> > <cfargument name="City" type="string" required="true"> > <cfargument name="State" type="string" required="true"> > ... > /cffunction> > > You could have the return type be defined as an array or even a query, but in > both cases the fact that the returned data is a list of zip objects gets > lost. Any web service client to this CFC would have no way of knowing the > what the data structure being passed back actually was. > >
Yeah, I'm curious how this would need to be defined in CF as well. I want to know if it's actually possible to have a return type that is an array of objects AND have that return type accurately defined in the WSDL's resonse type. Thanks, Eric ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Macromedia ColdFusion MX7 Upgrade to MX7 & experience time-saving features, more productivity. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJW Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:281679 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
