CF 2021 - Creating a new object throws

Jojo, while it's understandable that you think something changed in cf2021 to cause your problem, there are many other possible explanations...and too many to list them all here.

Let's start with something simpler: can you easily rename or copy the files involved: the one doing the calling and the cfc being called, and the call to it? Does it work then? It may seem silly, but if things then work, that tells us this is about the compiled cfml created for the original files. And we could talk about how to deal with that, and what happened to cause the problem.

If it fails the same way, that would point us in other directions. Let's take 'em one step at a time.

And if somehow this is important to solve asap, I'll suggest that we might solve it (and assess/discuss/try other options to get there) quickly in a screenshare consulting session. If that interests you, see more on my rates, approach, satisfaction guarantee, and online calendar at carehart.org/consulting.

Otherwise we can all proceed here. 

@--jojo-- , the fact that the code worked in CF2016 is no guarantee. ColdFusion is constantly improving. So ColdFusion 2021 might produce an error for code which worked in ColdFusion 2016.

The error message suggests that ColdFusion thinks 'myobject' is a method. Is it?

There are other questions besides:

• What is the full path of the CFC that you wish to instantiate?
• Does the CFC have a property named 'config' and an init method?

In any case, I have created the following example, which you can compare with your set-up. I am on CF2021 Update 4.

Step 1: I registered the mapping svc in the Administrator

Step 2: Create the CFC C:\ColdFusion2021\cfusion\wwwroot\services\MyObject.cfc. Its code is:

<cfcomponent accessors="yes">
                <cfproperty name="config">
                <cffunction name="init" returntype="any">
                               <cfargument name="config" type="struct">
                               <cfset variables.config=arguments.config>

                               <cfreturn this>
                </cffunction>

                <cffunction name="myFunc" returntype="string">
                               <cfreturn "Test: OK">
                </cffunction>
</cfcomponent>

Step 3: Create testPage.cfm containing the following code, and launch it in the browser:

<cfscript>
struct=cgi;
variables.newObj =new svc.myobject( config=struct );
writedump(variables.newObj.getConfig());
</cfscript>

The result is a dump of the CGI struct. Hence, no errors.