Jim, I'm not trying to talk you into anything. It looks like you've got a system that works, but I do want to correct something that you said for other readers.
CFPROPERTY does not restrict your ability to create access restrictions. If you go the cfproperty route, you have to write a cfproperty parser as part of your super.init method. If you want you can create validation methods and provide access control. I have been doing typing and listing required fields in my version. I've been wanting to add more features, but haven't had the time yet. That being said, I've been working with <cfproperty> in a stable way for about a year now and have built some reasonably large and complex applications with it. ----------------------------------- Gerry Gurevich Application Development NIEHS ITSS Contractor Lockheed Martin Information Technology 919-361-5444 ext 311 -----Original Message----- From: Jim Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 9:54 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [CFCDev] CFML and Typing (was Bean and CFC question) I've not looked art the "mixins" idea yet (sounds neat tho') but you might want to take a look at the stuff I pointed to the other day. I found CFPROPERTY to have at least a few problems. It doesn't allow for access definition (you may want variables private or abstract but still have them defined in documentation). Using it as a meta data generator might impair it's use as a web services descriptor (you might have private properties that you want to define but that you don't want exposed to the web service. So I left CFPROPERTY to the web service domain and created a meta data injector of my own. Each CFC can (optionally, of course) define all its properties. These will be cached during the pseudo-constructor phase. The system already easily handles inheritance. It could easily be used to build aggregate supersets of multiple components. The only major change I'd like to make is applying the metadata directly to the existing metadata structure (if possible and performant) - right now the metadata cache is contained either in the application or the server scope. I don't like that as much. Jim Davis ---------------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] with the words 'unsubscribe cfcdev' as the subject of the email. CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported by CFXHosting (www.cfxhosting.com). An archive of the CFCDev list is available at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
