Dynamic named arguments

Question

Hi,

I have 2 cfc methods one receives 3 arguments,
id,fieldid,fieldvalue. Where fieldid is a db column name and
fieldvalue is the value of that field. I want to pass this info to
another method which accepts many more optional arguments. I would
like to use the arguments.field as the name of an argument for the
2nd method

e.g. my2ndmethod(arguments.fieldid=arguments.fieldvalue)

However, this doesn't seem to be working. Is there anyway to
do this other than using a switch case on arguments.fieldid and
then hardcoding each possible fieldid in each cfcase?

Any ideas/suggestions/workarounds?

Many thanks,

Dave

Dave Phipps · Accepted Answer

Problem solved. I used cfinvoke to invoke the second methodand then used cfinvokeargument name="#arguments.fieldid#"value="#arguments.fieldvalue#" and it works a treat!!Cheers,Dave

Dave Phipps · Answer

But wouldn't argumentcollection pass arguments.fieldid and arguments.field value to the 2nd method? My second method would not know what fieldid was.

arguments.fieldid could be anything for that particular data table e.g. firstname or lastname. arguments.fieldvalue holds the corresponding value of that field e.g. Dave or Phipps.

My 2nd method has arguments for firstname, lastname so argumentCollection would not fit in this situation.

Although could I use cfinvokeargument?? I'll try it in the morning! (00:22 here).

I think I have had a lightbulb moment.

Thanks Dan, you might have pointed me in the right direction!

Cheers,

Dave

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