Nope I think id still go with its a dumb feature. I also think there is a difference between quirks that people use and find really useful such as the quirk originally in CFMX where you could add additional attributes on the <cfproperty tag> which formed the basis of FourQ in farcry and other ORMs such as ours and infact effectively is how ORM was eventually implemented in CF 9 with attributes. Which is a quirk that we support.
Also the binary data is coming from the DB so its right to support it. If this quirk was added I would want to see complete support e.g all the elements that deal with queries auto serialised and deserialised objects, the absence of that means it wasn't i believe a proper feature. E.g. You should then be able to insert an object instance into an insert statement and have CF automatically serialise it into your db and deserialise it on a normal query. A On 5 January 2012 13:26, Alan Williamson (aw2.0 cloud experts) < [email protected]> wrote: > I agree to a point ... however, you get the feeling this is one of those > classic Macromedia/ACF examples of where it was by-accident, as oppose to > any great design. You get the sense that somewhere an engineer in ACF > said "ooh .. it does that?" > > Blobs are slightly different, as that is just binary data, and SQL > databases handle that with no problems. They are considered a single > "type". A structure inside a column data, is not a single type. Where > does it end though? A query built up of rows/columns of inner queries! > Can you imagine the CFOUTPUT/CFLOOP logic to iterate over that bad boy?!?! > ;) > > We won't be supporting it, as Alex noted, it just feels wrong. We've > already implemented enough quirks as it is. > > > Fiddlesticks wrote: > >> I think you're being a little harsh about storing rich objects in a >> query. After all, queries already support binary objects. Whether or >> not it's dumb, it is a compatibility issue, which is what I thought we >> were shooting for here. >> >> > -- > online documentation: http://openbd.org/manual/ > google+ hints/tips: > https://plus.google.com/**115990347459711259462<https://plus.google.com/115990347459711259462> > > http://groups.google.com/**group/openbd?hl=en<http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en> > > Join us @ http://www.OpenCFsummit.org/ Dallas, Feb 2012 > -- Alex Skinner Managing Director Pixl8 Interactive Tel: +448452600726 Email: [email protected] Web: pixl8.co.uk -- online documentation: http://openbd.org/manual/ google+ hints/tips: https://plus.google.com/115990347459711259462 http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en Join us @ http://www.OpenCFsummit.org/ Dallas, Feb 2012
