Even better is a method I'm tinkering with, which uses a call like this:
#request.self#?fuseaction=#request.fusePrefix#cart.viewOrder
I use a variation on circuits.cfm to build request.fusePrefix based on the
fusebox's location relative to another app (or lack thereof). This provides
three benefits:
1. All fusebox calls look exactly the same, except for the fuseaction itself.
2. If the circuit is popped into another application or used standalone,
there's no need to mess with the calls; circuits.cfm handles it for you.
3. The way I build the fusePrefix, the circuit only cares that its alias
("cart" in the example above) is unique within itself, not necessarily within
the entire parent application. With this method, a nested structure where two
apps happen to have the same alias is valid, so again you don't have to worry
about the parent app environment.
I'm not happy that I've considered all the permutations of this method yet, but
it's the direction I'm currently leaning.
- Jeff
On 6 Apr 2001, at 9:29, Patrick McElhaney wrote:
> I think I'm starting to understand where you guys are coming from.
> There's nothing wrong with circuits.cfm. It solves a problem. But I
> think I have a better solution to that problem.
>
> If the circuit "orderTracking" wants to call is own fuseaction,
> "viewOrder", it does so in this form:
> #self#?fuseaction=#this#.viewOrder
>
> If cart wants to call it, the syntax is
> #self#?fuseaction=#this#.orderTracking.viewOrder
>
> If an app containing cart wants to call it:
> #self#?fuseaction=#this#.cart.orderTracking.viewOrder
>
> #this# is a special variable that represents the circuits in which
> the current circuit is nested. I explained it all in an earlier post.
>
> You don't need to know the absolute path to the fuseaction you're
> calling, only the relative path.
>
> Does that make sense?
>
> Patrick
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