Sean,
Thanks for your help. I guess I am still looking at this in a standard cfml
way and getting a little confused in the OOP side of this.
I guess your saying
<cftry>
<cfset user = users.getUser('testuser') />
<cfcatch type="any">
</cfcatch>
</cftry>
Where I would be thinking in the lines of
<cfset user = users.getUser('testuser') />
<cfif user>
</cfif>
Regards,
Andrew Scott
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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Sean Corfield
Sent: Sunday, 23 October 2005 3:22 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [CFCDev] CFC return types
On 10/22/05, Andrew Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you don't mind I would like an example to clarify, in this example I am
> checking to see if a user exists, it returns the user object if it does.
So
> when it returns back to the caller how do I handle it, if you can give me
an
> example to help clarify what your saying that would be much appreciated.
<cfif userExists>
<cfreturn theUser/>
<cfelse>
<cfthrow type="user.nonexistent" message="User #username# does not
exist"/>
</cfif>
And then in your calling code you can safely say the following:
<cfset user = obj.getUser(username)/>
and go on to use the 'user' variable knowing it will be set correctly.
Surround the code with <cftry> / <cfcatch> to handle the non-existent
user case (or let it percolate up to the next level).
This is much more robust that trying to handle null return values inline.
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