What about the advantage of reusing your custom tag in other applications? Adam Wayne Lehman Web Systems Developer Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Distance Education Division
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Liotta Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 5:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CFCDev] Encapsulation Or Not In Custom Tags Because there are zero advantages to passing in data to a custom tag that already has access to the data anyway. -Matt On Friday, August 29, 2003, at 05:26 PM, Adam Wayne Lehman wrote: > Pass the attributes. If you've done so well to follow encapsulation, > why > stop now? > > Adam Wayne Lehman > Web Systems Developer > Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health > Distance Education Division > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Dawson, Michael > Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 4:50 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [CFCDev] Encapsulation Or Not In Custom Tags > > Well, this list has been very quiet lately! > > I've built all of the logic for my intranet site in my components and > now I'm getting ready to build the output using custom tags. > > My components follow pretty-good rules of encapsulation in that they > don't assume to know of "exterior" data such as other scopes, caller > variables, etc. I pass everything thru the arguments. I'm pleased > with > the results. > > Now that I'm working on the display using custom tags, I find it a bit > of a relief to "break some rules" of encapsulation. At least, that is > where I'm heading... > > I'm interested in other's opinions on whether custom tags should be > allowed to call any scope and know any variable that is visible to them > (Example 1), or should everything be passed through the attributes > scope > (Example 2)? > > I don't really want a religious war on using CFCs or Custom Tags for > display. I'm just curious if people tend to let custom tags "know it > all" within the body of the tag. > > Example 1 > <cf_myTag><cfoutput>#Session.firstName#</cfoutput></cf_myTag> > > Example 2 > <cf_myTag > firstName="#Session.firstName#"><cfoutput>#Attributes.firstName#</ > cfoutp > ut></cf_myTag> > > I'm leaning toward Example 1 since I already did the hard work building > my components. > > Thanks > > M!chael A. Dawson > Group Manager, Programming and Software Development > Office of Technology Services > University of Evansville > 1800 Lincoln Avenue > Evansville, IN 47722 > 812-479-2581 > ---------------------------------------------------------- > 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). > > An archive of the CFCDev list is available at > www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > 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). > > An archive of the CFCDev list is available at > www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Matt Liotta President & CEO Montara Software, Inc. http://www.MontaraSoftware.com (888) 408-0900 x901 ---------------------------------------------------------- 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). An archive of the CFCDev list is available at www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------- 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). An archive of the CFCDev list is available at www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
