Dave, Why don't you just pass in the array?
<cfset positionalArgs = ['foo', 'bar', 42] /> <cfset myFunction(positionalArgs) /> <cffunction name="myFunction"> <cfargument name="positionalArgs" type="array"> <cfloop from="1" to="#arraylen(positionalArgs)#" index="x"> <cfdump var="#x#: #positionalArgs[x]#"><br /> </cfloop> </cffunction> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 12:38 PM, enigment <[email protected]> wrote: > > @Michael: What I'm looking for is the positional equivalent of > argumentCollection. If it wasn't for that, you'd think the same about > passing a structure of arguments -- any object you pass will be > treated as a single argument. But argumentCollection trumps that. I > even tried a structure with keys 1, 2, 3, and passing that as > argumentCollection (unnamed arguments appear inside the function as 1, > 2, and 3 if you dump arguments), no joy. > > @Jason: Clearly, calling a method three times, each time with one > argument, is very different than calling it once with all three. Say > they're search fields, lastName, FirstName, ZIP; you want the search > to run with all three of them in place, not separately for each one. > (Not sure why you went with an iterator rather than just indexing over > the array, but it doesn't matter, not what I need to do.) > > Thanks for the ideas though. This just may not be possible. > > Dave > > On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Jason Durham <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Whoops.. read the rest of the email below. > > > > var I = positionalArgs.iterator(); > > var arg = ""; > > > > while( i.hasNext() ) { > > arg = i.next(); > > SomeComponent.someMethod(arg); > > } > > > > That will call someMethod() for each array value. You could use a For > loop > > with "i LTE arrayLen(positionalArg)" if you don't want to use iterator(). > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: enigment [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2010 10:48 AM > > To: cf-talk > > Subject: Re: Positional argument collection > > > > > > Thanks for chiming in Michael. > > > > Using ArrayToList would pass all three values as a single string. I'm > > looking for a generic way to pass each array element as an individual > > argument, regardless of how many there are. Take another look at the > > examples I gave. > > > > Dave > > > > On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Michael Grant <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> I'm not exactly sure what you're asking but would some variation of > >> this work for you? > >> > >> SomeComponent.someMethod(ArrayToList(positionalArgs)); > >> > >> Of course you may need to qualify the list etc if you are passing > >> strings, but I think that suits your example. > >> > >> > >> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 10:54 AM, enigment <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >>> > >>> Say I have an array of values, arbitrary length, that I want to pass > >>> as the arguments to a method. > >>> > >>> For example, with this: > >>> positionalArgs = ['foo', 'bar', 42]; // this varies, may be any > >>> length I want to make this call: > >>> SomeComponent.someMethod('foo', 'bar', 42); > >>> > >>> Is there a positional equivalent to argumentCollection, or some other > >>> language construct that I don't know about to do this? If the > >>> arguments were in a structure, I could pass it as the > >>> argumentCollection, but I don't know how to do this by position in a > >>> clean way. > >>> > >>> Only thing I thought of is a switch statement with some finite number > >>> of cases, each of which calls the method with a specific number of > >>> arguments, like this (partial): > >>> case 2: > >>> SomeComponent.someMethod(positionalArgs[1], positionalArgs[2]); > >>> break; > >>> case 3: > >>> SomeComponent.someMethod(positionalArgs[1], positionalArgs[2], > >>> positionalArgs[3]); > >>> break; > >>> etc... > >>> > >>> Any thoughts? Thanks, > >>> > >>> Dave > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:337910 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
