I think GetMetaData is probably the way to go...
http://livedocs.macromedia.com/coldfusion/6.1/htmldocs/funct102.htm#wp1105179
"""
Component metadata contains at least the following keys:
* name: the component name
"""
I believe that's what you want - the name of the component. I'm not sure
if that's the name of the .cfc file (minus .cfc of course) or the value of
the name attribute in the CFCOMPONENT tag, but give it a try and see if
that works for ya...
-Cliff
On Wed, April 6, 2005 12:49 pm, Kerry said:
> well, i guess that depends. you could explicitly set a property e.g.
> "cartype" in the init(),
> or slightly messier, you could use getmetadata(mycar)....
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> Hi,
>
> This is probably a simple question but I haven't seen it explicitly
> illustrated anywhere.
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> Lets say I have the classic CAR class and subclasses SportsCar, Truck
> and SUV. I get an instance myCAR and I need to determine if myCAR is a
> SportsCar, Truck or SUV. Would I call a method in CAR such as
> myCar.gettype()? Or in this case is being a SportsCar, Truck or SUV just
> an attribute of CAR not a subclass (where I would have sportscar.cfc,
> truck,cfc, suv.cfc)? I'd prefer it to be a subclass since those
> subclasses
> have different methods like Truck.towBoat(). But I don't know if I can
> tow
> boat with myCAR because I don't know if myCAR is a Truck.
>
> Some code to illustrate what I'm looking for....
>
>
> <cfset myCar = createObject("component","com.car").init()>
> <cfset carDAO.read(myCar,form.vin_number)>
> <cfif myCar.getType() is "truck">
> <cfset myCar.towBoat()>
> <cfelse>
> Sorry, you can't tow a boat with your car
> </cfif>
>
>
> Obviously a big fallacy here would be that myCar is a CAR object and
> probably would have to be recast as a Truck object for me to call
> myCar.towBoat(). Something like
> <cfset myCar = createObject("component","com.truck").init()>
> <cfset truckDAO.read(myCar,form.vin_number)>
> within the cfif tag.
>
>
> Am I missing some fundamental property here? How do I refer to a generic
> unknown car and yet have subclasses of cars that behave differently?
>
>
> Jason Cronk
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