Wow Matthew,
Thanks for all the effort. You really went above and beyond. I can't say I
understood all of that as CF, OpenBD and SnipEx are all new topics for me,
but I'll run all this by some of the guys I work with who've dealt with cold
fusion in the past and see if I can get your recommendations implemented
before I bother you any further. Thanks again.
-Hob
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 10:32 PM, Matthew Woodward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> So here's the low-down on SnipEx.
>
> I've been playing around with this for a while this evening and there is a
> difference in behavior between CFCs on OpenBD and Adobe CF in this case.
>
> Basically the main SnipEx CFC sets url.method on the fly based on what
> parameters are or aren't in the URL, and with url.method defined on the fly,
> that calls the corresponding method in the CFC. This works on Adobe CF.
>
> On OpenBD when no parameters are defined in the URL explicitly a 403 error
> is thrown on Tomcat, and when a method isn't defined in the URL (e.g.
> SnipEx.cfc?libid=1), OpenBD throws the error "the request must contain a
> METHOD parameter."
>
> I'll throw that in the bug tracker so we can investigate compatibility on
> this issue.
>
> All is not lost however!
>
> To give a bit of background (and you may already know this), SnipEx is
> designed to be used in conjunction with CFEclipse to provide centralized,
> remote access to snippets from within Eclipse. The application as written
> runs from two CFCs.
>
> But given the apparent compatibility issue with the CFCs, I added a CFML
> file into the mix that seems to have done the trick. I did also modify the
> CFCs a bit just to do some cleanup--added returntype to the CFC methods and
> some other very minor changes.
>
> The basic steps are:
> 1. create a database--I modified the database script a bit and used the H2
> embedded database in MySQL mode
>
> 2. insert a record into the lib table in the database for your first snipex
> library
>
> 3. configure some settings in Application.cfc, specifically
> application.rootID (which needs to match the ID of the record you created in
> #2 above) and application.dsn (which needs to be your datasource name that
> you created in OpenBD)
>
> 4. add the CFML file in the mix to handle requests and call the appropriate
> CFC method
>
> Here's the contents of the CFML file--I named this snipex.cfm:
> <cfif structKeyExists(URL, "libid")>
> <cfset URL.method = "getLibrary" />
> <cfelseif structKeyExists(URL, "snipid")>
> <cfset URL.method = "getSnippet" />
> <cfelseif NOT structKeyExists(URL, "method")>
> <cfset URL.method = "getSnipEx" />
> </cfif>
>
> <cfset snipex = createObject("component", "SnipEx") />
>
> <cfswitch expression="#url.method#">
> <cfcase value="getLibrary">
> <cfset snipex.getLibrary(url.libid) />
> </cfcase>
> <cfcase value="getSnippet">
> <cfset snipex.getSnippet(url.snipid) />
> </cfcase>
> <cfcase value="getSnipEx">
> <cfset snipex.getSnipEx() />
> </cfcase>
> </cfswitch>
>
> Looking at this again you should really create a single instance of SnipEx
> CFC in the application scope and just refer to that, but hey, I was just
> trying to get things working. ;-)
>
> Now at this point you can hit a couple of URLs in your browser and get XML
> back; this is assuming a context path of snipex and a lib id of 1:
> http://localhost:8080/snipex/snipex.cfm (this will call getSnipEx)
> http://localhost:8080/snipex/snipex.cfm?libid=1 (this will call
> getLibrary)
>
> So if you're seeing XML in the browser, that means it's working.
>
> Next you go into CFEclipse and configure this as a snipex server, using
> http://localhost:8080/snipex/snipex.cfm as the URL instead of hitting the
> CFC directly.
>
> This worked for me--let me know if any of this needs to be clarified. I can
> zip up the working OpenBD code if people are interested.
>
>
> --
> Matt Woodward
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.mattwoodward.com/blog
>
> Please do not send me proprietary file formats such as Word, PowerPoint,
> etc. as attachments.
> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
>
>
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