And there is a quirk that I did not know. Interesting, I've never before seen / in an inheritance declaration. Do you know if this follows the Java standard or is this a CF-only thing?
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 10:40 PM, Michael Dinowitz <[email protected]> wrote: > > That works until the cfc being extended (parent) has the same name as > the cfc doing the extending (child). If I have an application.cfc in > the blog directory and I want it to extend the application.cfc that's > in the root, I have to use "/.application" > > > On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 1:05 AM, Matt Quackenbush <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> When requesting a CFC (either by createObject() or extends=""), you must >> supply a dot-notated path that is absolute to the web root. For instance... >> >> - /wwwroot >> baseapp.cfc >> - - /blog >> myclass.cfc >> >> For /blog/myclass.cfc to extend /baseapp.cfc it would be... >> >> extends="baseapp" >> >> You could, of course, use a mapping, but that just makes a path outside the >> web root accessible (by CF internally) as though its residence was inside >> the web root. In other words, you'd still be calling an absolute path. >> >> The bottom line is, relative paths do not work with CFCs. >> >> HTH >> >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:331156 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
