using isDefined for a dynamic struct?

Thanks for the help BTW. I'm still new to CF, I'm more of a .net guy.

Basically, I have this. It's a form that edits and adds bios for members:

objStatement = objConnection.PrepareStatement("select bio_first_name, bio_last_name from cpppeBios where bio_id = ?");
objStatement.setInt(1, Int(FORM.edit_bio_id));
                   
objResults = CreateObject("java", "coldfusion.sql.QueryTable").Init(objStatement.ExecuteQuery());
               
EditBio = structNew();
EditBio = objResults;

....and, I have input fields down below...

<input type='text' value='' />

I use the same form for adding and editing bios. What is the best approach for handling populating of these fields when the EditBio object can be null or contain data. I would access the data using EditBio.bio_first_name, etc.

Thanks again.

Not sure if these are it.

I'm populating form fields using a struct object that is created from a query. My goal is when outputting the values into each element, I'm passing  myObject.myProperty (no quotes, but the actual object.property) into a function, check that it exists, and then write the value.

How can I go about this? Can I convert the name of the property to a string in order for me to test? It seems that these functions rely on getting a string name to test and can't test on the actual variable. Thanks again.

I think you are either looking for the #structKeyExists(myStruct,"myProperty")# or arrayNotation i.e. myStruct["myProperty"] which of course can be a varaible.

<cfset node = "myProperty">
<cfoutput>#myStruct[node]#<cfoutput>

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Mack