No, that won't work (if I understand what you want) because "THIS" is really a reference to the public scope, not the "whole" object, so your "instance" variables won't copy by copying the reference to this.
You really should build a facade ;) > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Brad Howerter > Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 11:36 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: [CFCDev] CFC Persistance > > > Okay, thank you, I think I get it: the newer object is referred to by > 'this'; I'm just breaking that reference, not replacing the new object. > > Actually, I don't need to do a deep copy. I can just use > 'instance' instead > of the 'this' scope and then set this.instance = server.foo.instance. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Sean A Corfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 12:24 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [CFCDev] CFC Persistance > > > On Friday, Aug 15, 2003, at 11:09 US/Pacific, Brad Howerter wrote: > > But it doesn't work when you try to replace an object with an older > > cached > > version. You can do <cfset this = server.foo>, but it doesn't get > > returned > > to the caller. I'd sure like an explanation for this behavior. > > Because all you're doing is setting the "this" reference to the older > object - you're not updating the newer object with the data from the > older object. > > What you need to do is a deep copy of the cached object - however that > will be expensive. Almost certainly as expensive than initializing the > object in the first place... > > Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/ > > "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." > -- Margaret Atwood ---------------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word 'unsubscribe cfcdev' in the message of the email. CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported by Mindtool, Corporation (www.mindtool.com).
