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Ripley Casdorph
Ripley Casdorph
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June 7, 2013
Question

Upgrade to CF10 and App is Broken

  • June 7, 2013
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We are upgrading from CF8 to 10 and our major application a content management software is now broken. 

It uses Javascript, CF,  and XML. This code work perfect in CF 7, 8 and 9, but now in 10 we are screwed! I can provide more detail.

Trying to debug code in firebug.  The post looks like this

<methodCall>

<methodName>display.lock</methodName>

<params>

<param>

<value>

<string>9C7bd8c93CaCbc6A</string>

</value>

</param>

<param>
<value>
<string>mlongwell</string>

</value>

</param>

<param>
<value>
<string>31559-73666-19542</string>

</value>

</param>

</params>

</methodCall>

The error we are getting is below.

Webpage error details

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/5.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; .NET4.0C; BRI/1; .NET4.0E; InfoPath.2)

Timestamp: Fri, 7 Jun 2013 19:52:51 UTC

Message: Unable to get value of the property 'nodeName': object is null or undefined

Line: 116

Char: 4

Code: 0

URI: http://test-coldfusion:84/wframework/js/wcWidget/wcXmlRpc.js

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1 reply

p_sim
p_sim
Participating Frequently
June 7, 2013

Search for 'nodeName' on your code base, then trace it where the nodeName gets its value.

Anit_Kumar
Anit_Kumar
Inspiring
June 7, 2013

Hello rcasdorph,

Along with the suggestion by p.sim, We would suggest you to use the Code Analyzer to check the custom codes http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/10.0/Developing/WSc3ff6d0ea77859461172e0811cbec0d04c-7fee.html , before you migrate your application. The architecture of ColdFusion changed from JRun(till ColdFusion 9) to Tomcat (ColdFusion 10). Thus, there are possibly many codes changes from ColdFusion 7/8 to ColdFusion 10.

Regards,

Anit Kumar

Ripley Casdorph
Ripley CasdorphAuthor
Participating Frequently
June 10, 2013

Thanks for the suggestion.  I ran it, but there are no specific errors. However, there are 240 pages that are using a local. var and that seems to have gone away in 10.

In ColdFusion9 LOCAL is a reserved word and built-in scope now. This means that Variables and structures should not be named as LOCAL. Naming a structure or array LOCAL may produce data discrepanies.

There is miles of code like this ...

{

65:                             for(local.i=1; local.i lte ArrayLen(_columns[arguments.column]); local.i++)

66:                             {

67:                                  local.module = StructNew();

68:                                  local.module.id = _columns[arguments.column][local.i];

Actually, 2500 instances of the local var.  I didn't write this. 

Do you have a suggestion for what to change that to? 

Or can I just change it to somethjng like _local?

Thanks for the help!

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