Well, after a small bit of tinkering, here are some thoughts:
First, the processing overhead of FormURL2Attributes isn't huge at all. I
created a variable with 80,000 characters in it, and the difference between
processing the page with and without FormURL2Attributes was a grand 2ms.
OTOH, there is the issue of memory on the server, and doing little experiments
like this does tend to clog that bottleneck. So, I tried this little gem:
------------------- Vars2FBVars.cfm ----------------------
<cfset FBVars = form>
<cfloop collection="#url#" item="var">
<cfset foo = StructInsert(FBVars,var,Evaluate('url.' & var))>
</cfloop>
---------------- End Vars2FBVars.cfm ---------------------
Those who have been bitten by it will remember what happens when you assign a
variable the contents of a structure, as in line 1: you get pointers instead
of a copy of the data. It's irritating if you don't want it to happen, but
perfect for what we want here: to change the referent structure without the
overhead of copying the data.
Unfortunately, there's no way (that I've found yet anyway) to make pointers for
two structures and combine the two structures into one, so we have to make a
copy of the url structure's pairs into the FBVars structure, as in the loop.
This is an acceptable compromise due to the limited nature of a URL--you'll
never get 80,000-character values in there, now will you?
So we end up with a structure, FBVars, that does what Hal wants (combines all
the url and form variables in a single structure which you can loop over, and
isn't a fake copy of the attributes scope). The only question left in my mind
is whether it's worth bringing in genuine attribute-scoped variables as well.
The only case where you would need this is if you were going to call the app as
a custom tag, and I think we're finding that case to be quite uncommon.
Thoughts? What say you, Hal?
- Jeff
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