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Anonymous
August 11, 2010
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Problems with application scope variable in remote functions

  • August 11, 2010
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I have a cfc folder with all my cfcs. All my public and private functions are able to get the APPLICATION variables just fine, but for whatever reason I get errors like...

Error invoking CFC /web/admin/cfc/documents.cfc : Element DS is undefined in APPLICATION.

Basically I am trying to retrieve APPLICATION.DS which is the variable that stores my datasource.

Any ideas as to why only remote functions suffer from this problem?

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    Adam Cameron.
    Inspiring
    August 11, 2010

    When you call your public methods, you'll be calling them from a request to a CFM template that is in a specific application context (eg: there's a <cfapplication> tag somewhere in the mix, or an Application.cfc).

    If your CFCs are in a subdir structure which doesn't run in that application context then you will not have access to that application context's variables.

    Which is what I suspect is your problem.

    You should not be accessing application-scoped variables in a CFC method though, really (as Dan alludes to).

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    Adam

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    Anonymous
    August 13, 2010

    Found the problem. It turns out the problem was that I was calling an old CFC from the CFM on accident. I had to change folder structure for certain reasons and the links were never fixed.

    Thanks all.

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    Dan_Bracuk
    Inspiring
    August 11, 2010

    It's because they are not part of the application.  To solve this problem, make the datasource an argument of your function and pass a value when you call that function.

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