What you want is a serialized form of your CFC. You need to write a method, perhaps called serialization, or maybe toStruct(), that returns a struct containing the data you want.
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Tony Bentley <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have a cfc that gets instantiated and then stored in an array. I have a > bunch of different objects (arrays, queries, structures, etc) in the cfc > which all gets used but because of the way I am storing them, the methods can > be called and I want to prevent that. > > So here is an example of my issue: > > Animal.cfc > > Cat.cfc extends Animal.cfc > > Cat.cfc: > > this.name="Kitty"; > //instance vars go here > function init(id){ > this.id=arguments.id > //setters go here > return this; > } > function meow(){ > writeoutput("meow"); > } > > So now I am going to store the cats > catsArray = []; > for(i=1;i lte cats.recordcount;i++){ > cat = createobject("component","cat.cfc").init(cats.id[i]); > //method to get structure here? > catsArray[i] = cat; > } > > Now if you dump the array, you get all of the stuff in cat and animal but you > also get the methods to kill cat, feed cat and all. There must be a way to > only get the structure with members and not the option to call the cfc > methods. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:337878 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
