For us, the project is still on the back burner. No progress. ... View more

You had my full support until you mentioned FLASH - and I still back you 100% on everything else you stated. IMHO Flash was one of the biggest vulnerabilities on the internet. It constantly had zero-days. ... View more

Update: Nope. I moved the var to the top of the function and the compiler squawks with the same error but now on the if() statement that was moved down due to the var line moving up. Now I'm wondering if there is a module/cfc size limit in 2018 that I'm running into? Here is the stack trace for anyone that is more fluent in stacktrace than me: java.lang.ClassCastException: coldfusion.compiler.ASTliteral cannot be cast to coldfusion.compiler.ASTtagAttribute at coldfusion.compiler.ExprAssembler.assembleFuncParams(ExprAssembler.java:1369) at coldfusion.compiler.ExprAssembler.assembleFuncParams(ExprAssembler.java:1355) at coldfusion.compiler.ExprAssembler.invoke(ExprAssembler.java:1321) at coldfusion.compiler.ExprAssembler._assembleExpr(ExprAssembler.java:508) at coldfusion.compiler.ExprAssembler.assembleExpr(ExprAssembler.java:562) at coldfusion.compiler.ExprAssembler.cast(ExprAssembler.java:1762) at coldfusion.compiler.StmtAssembler.cast(StmtAssembler.java:759) at coldfusion.compiler.ExprAssembler._assembleExpr(ExprAssembler.java:270) at coldfusion.compiler.ExprAssembler.assembleExpr(ExprAssembler.java:562) at coldfusion.compiler.ExprAssembler.assignStruct(ExprAssembler.java:1580) at coldfusion.compiler.ExprAssembler.assignStatement(ExprAssembler.java:1493) at coldfusion.compiler.StmtAssembler.assignStatement(StmtAssembler.java:545) at coldfusion.compiler.StmtAssembler.assembleStatement(StmtAssembler.java:359) at coldfusion.compiler.FunctionAssembler.assembleStatement(FunctionAssembler.java:327) at coldfusion.compiler.StmtAssembler.block(StmtAssembler.java:262) at coldfusion.compiler.StmtAssembler.assembleStatement(StmtAssembler.java:334) at coldfusion.compiler.FunctionAssembler.assembleStatement(FunctionAssembler.java:327) at coldfusion.compiler.StmtAssembler.block(StmtAssembler.java:258) at coldfusion.compiler.StmtAssembler.cfif(StmtAssembler.java:3364) at coldfusion.compiler.StmtAssembler.assembleStatement(StmtAssembler.java:364) at coldfusion.compiler.FunctionAssembler.assembleStatement(FunctionAssembler.java:327) at coldfusion.compiler.StmtAssembler.block(StmtAssembler.java:262) at coldfusion.compiler.FunctionAssembler.function(FunctionAssembler.java:241) at coldfusion.compiler.FunctionAssembler.assemble(FunctionAssembler.java:135) at coldfusion.compiler.TemplateAssembler.assembleFunctions(TemplateAssembler.java:492) at coldfusion.compiler.TemplateAssembler.assemble(TemplateAssembler.java:183) at coldfusion.compiler.NeoTranslator.translateJava(NeoTranslator.java:410) at coldfusion.compiler.NeoTranslator.translateJava(NeoTranslator.java:160) at coldfusion.runtime.TemplateClassLoader$TemplateCache$1.fetch(TemplateClassLoader.java:478) at coldfusion.util.LruCache.get(LruCache.java:180) at coldfusion.runtime.TemplateClassLoader$TemplateCache.fetchSerial(TemplateClassLoader.java:404) at coldfusion.util.AbstractCache.fetch(AbstractCache.java:58) at coldfusion.util.SoftCache.get_statsOff(SoftCache.java:142) at coldfusion.util.SoftCache.get(SoftCache.java:81) at coldfusion.runtime.TemplateClassLoader.findClass(TemplateClassLoader.java:672) at coldfusion.runtime.TemplateClassLoader.newInstance(TemplateClassLoader.java:609) at coldfusion.runtime.TemplateClassLoader.newInstance(TemplateClassLoader.java:592) at coldfusion.runtime.TemplateProxyFactory.getCFCInstance(TemplateProxyFactory.java:284) at coldfusion.runtime.TemplateProxyFactory.resolveName(TemplateProxyFactory.java:177) at coldfusion.runtime.TemplateProxyFactory.resolveName(TemplateProxyFactory.java:162) at coldfusion.runtime.TemplateProxyFactory.resolveName(TemplateProxyFactory.java:152) at coldfusion.cfc.ComponentProxyFactory.getProxy(ComponentProxyFactory.java:74) at coldfusion.cfc.ComponentProxyFactory.getProxy(ComponentProxyFactory.java:56) at coldfusion.runtime.CFPage.CreateObject(CFPage.java:8107) at coldfusion.runtime.CFPage.CreateObject(CFPage.java:8126) at cfone2ecfc936010325$funcGETCACHEDCONTROLLER.runFunction(D:\Shift4\myportal\pub\framework\one.cfc:1842) at coldfusion.runtime.UDFMethod.invoke(UDFMethod.java:552) at coldfusion.runtime.UDFMethod$ReturnTypeFilter.invoke(UDFMethod.java:483) at coldfusion.runtime.UDFMethod$ArgumentCollectionFilter.invoke(UDFMethod.java:446) at coldfusion.filter.FunctionAccessFilter.invoke(FunctionAccessFilter.java:95) at coldfusion.runtime.UDFMethod.runFilterChain(UDFMethod.java:397) at coldfusion.runtime.UDFMethod.runFilterChain(UDFMethod.java:370) at coldfusion.runtime.UDFMethod.invoke(UDFMethod.java:286) at coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage._invokeUDF(CfJspPage.java:3928) at coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage._invokeUDF(CfJspPage.java:3908) at cfone2ecfc936010325$funcGETCONTROLLER.runFunction(D:\Shift4\myportal\pub\framework\one.cfc:1869) at coldfusion.runtime.UDFMethod.invoke(UDFMethod.java:552) at coldfusion.runtime.UDFMethod$ReturnTypeFilter.invoke(UDFMethod.java:483) at coldfusion.runtime.UDFMethod$ArgumentCollectionFilter.invoke(UDFMethod.java:446) at coldfusion.filter.FunctionAccessFilter.invoke(FunctionAccessFilter.java:95) at coldfusion.runtime.UDFMethod.runFilterChain(UDFMethod.java:397) at coldfusion.runtime.UDFMethod.runFilterChain(UDFMethod.java:370) at coldfusion.runtime.UDFMethod.invoke(UDFMethod.java:597) at coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage._invokeUDF(CfJspPage.java:3869) at coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage._invokeUDF(CfJspPage.java:3850) at cfone2ecfc936010325$funcCONTROLLER.runFunction(D:\Shift4\myportal\pub\framework\one.cfc:260) at coldfusion.runtime.UDFMethod.invoke(UDFMethod.java:552) at coldfusion.runtime.UDFMethod$ReturnTypeFilter.invoke(UDFMethod.java:483) at coldfusion.runtime.UDFMethod$ArgumentCollectionFilter.invoke(UDFMethod.java:446) at coldfusion.filter.FunctionAccessFilter.invoke(FunctionAccessFilter.java:95) at coldfusion.runtime.UDFMethod.runFilterChain(UDFMethod.java:397) at coldfusion.runtime.UDFMethod.runFilterChain(UDFMethod.java:370) at coldfusion.runtime.UDFMethod.invoke(UDFMethod.java:286) at coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage._invokeUDF(CfJspPage.java:3928) at coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage._invokeUDF(CfJspPage.java:3908) at cfone2ecfc936010325$funcSETUPREQUESTWRAPPER.runFunction(D:\Shift4\myportal\pub\framework\one.cfc:2968) at coldfusion.runtime.UDFMethod.invoke(UDFMethod.java:552) at coldfusion.runtime.UDFMethod$ReturnTypeFilter.invoke(UDFMethod.java:483) at coldfusion.runtime.UDFMethod$ArgumentCollectionFilter.invoke(UDFMethod.java:446) at coldfusion.filter.FunctionAccessFilter.invoke(FunctionAccessFilter.java:95) at coldfusion.runtime.UDFMethod.runFilterChain(UDFMethod.java:397) at coldfusion.runtime.UDFMethod.runFilterChain(UDFMethod.java:370) at coldfusion.runtime.UDFMethod.invoke(UDFMethod.java:286) at coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage._invokeUDF(CfJspPage.java:3928) at coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage._invokeUDF(CfJspPage.java:3908) at cfone2ecfc936010325$funcONREQUESTSTART.runFunction(D:\Shift4\myportal\pub\framework\one.cfc:991) at coldfusion.runtime.UDFMethod.invoke(UDFMethod.java:552) at coldfusion.runtime.UDFMethod$ReturnTypeFilter.invoke(UDFMethod.java:483) at coldfusion.runtime.UDFMethod$ArgumentCollectionFilter.invoke(UDFMethod.java:446) at coldfusion.filter.FunctionAccessFilter.invoke(FunctionAccessFilter.java:95) at coldfusion.runtime.UDFMethod.runFilterChain(UDFMethod.java:397) at coldfusion.runtime.UDFMethod.runFilterChain(UDFMethod.java:370) at coldfusion.runtime.UDFMethod.invoke(UDFMethod.java:286) at coldfusion.runtime.TemplateProxy.invoke(TemplateProxy.java:818) at coldfusion.runtime.TemplateProxy.invoke(TemplateProxy.java:601) at coldfusion.runtime.TemplateProxy.invoke(TemplateProxy.java:426) at coldfusion.runtime.AppEventInvoker.invoke(AppEventInvoker.java:115) at coldfusion.runtime.AppEventInvoker.onRequestStart(AppEventInvoker.java:286) at coldfusion.filter.ApplicationFilter.invoke(ApplicationFilter.java:493) at coldfusion.filter.RequestMonitorFilter.invoke(RequestMonitorFilter.java:43) at coldfusion.filter.MonitoringFilter.invoke(MonitoringFilter.java:40) at coldfusion.filter.PathFilter.invoke(PathFilter.java:162) at coldfusion.filter.IpFilter.invoke(IpFilter.java:45) at coldfusion.filter.ExceptionFilter.invoke(ExceptionFilter.java:96) at coldfusion.filter.ClientScopePersistenceFilter.invoke(ClientScopePersistenceFilter.java:28) at coldfusion.filter.BrowserFilter.invoke(BrowserFilter.java:38) at coldfusion.filter.NoCacheFilter.invoke(NoCacheFilter.java:60) at coldfusion.filter.GlobalsFilter.invoke(GlobalsFilter.java:38) at coldfusion.filter.DatasourceFilter.invoke(DatasourceFilter.java:22) at coldfusion.filter.CachingFilter.invoke(CachingFilter.java:62) at coldfusion.CfmServlet.service(CfmServlet.java:226) at coldfusion.bootstrap.BootstrapServlet.service(BootstrapServlet.java:311) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:231) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:166) at coldfusion.monitor.event.MonitoringServletFilter.doFilter(MonitoringServletFilter.java:46) at coldfusion.bootstrap.BootstrapFilter.doFilter(BootstrapFilter.java:47) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:193) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:166) at org.apache.tomcat.websocket.server.WsFilter.doFilter(WsFilter.java:53) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:193) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:166) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:199) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:96) at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:491) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:139) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:92) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:87) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:357) at org.apache.coyote.ajp.AjpProcessor.service(AjpProcessor.java:422) at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProcessorLight.process(AbstractProcessorLight.java:66) at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$ConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:764) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.doRun(NioEndpoint.java:1388) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.SocketProcessorBase.run(SocketProcessorBase.java:49) at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source) at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source) at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61) at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) ... 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I think that was the case in CF9 and maybe 11. I know the var declaration could be at the beginning of any block in 2016. I would be disappointed if 2018 went backwards. I'll do some code tweaks and see if that is indeed the issue and I'll let everyone know. Thanks. ... View more

Thanks. It still seems strange. That would indicate that there is Dreamweaver code in the ColdFusion service. Sounds scary to me. It's just annoying. Almost as annoying as Adobe Creative Cloud requiring you to re-sign in every two weeks or so. But that's a thread for a different forum. ... View more

Hi Charlie, Short answer, somewhat. I'll send a PM. ... View more

Thanks for the reply. After reading various horror stories on SAML (SAML in general, not CF specifically), I was pointed in the direction of OpenID instead. While I have not done any development yet, what I read looks promising and it'll work in the environment I was scoping out. ... View more

I can't answer your price question. Code wise, for us, upgrading from CF9 to CF-2016 was fairly painless. Only four issues come to mind that affected us:   CGI.PATH_INFO is not set and we needed to add code to use CGI.SCRIPT_NAME if the former was empty (I could be flipping these, I'm writing from memory). File tags are slash and backslash sensitive whereas CF9 didn't seem to care - C:/temp/filename.txt and C:/temp\filename.txt were perfectly valid in CF9 whereas only backslashes are valid in CF-2016 (on Windows). Passing REQUESTTIMEOUT as a URL parameter no longer works. Your lengthy pages (if any) need to use the cfsetting tag to specify the timeout. We use an /API folder in our apps and CF by default treats this folder as a reserved folder for it. This was probably the most painful for us but we figured out the right tweaks to "unreserve" the folder.   I will say though that the improvements to the cfscript language, capabilities, and syntax, along with the addition of queryExecute and related tags vs. the query.cfc component makes it well worth any upgrade pains you might have. ... View more

Hi Nikhil,   Thank you for responding. I just happened to be browsing the new-fangled discussion board when I saw your reply. Anyway, matching your bullets…   1.       Global search: I just upgraded my PC which required a CFBuilder reinstall and this corrected a big portion of the issue I was experiencing. Prior to the reinstall my search result tab somehow got detached from the default panel making it a dialog window. Whenever I searched and drilled down to a hit, the search result panel would be hidden by the editor panel. This made it extremely difficult to go to the next hit – I was having to re-search to find the window which got complicated further because the object focus was now changed. As long as the tab is in the default location, global search is workable. The only issue currently is going from one module to another within the search results closes the previous module. I would rather they stay open so if I open 4 modules with hits, all 4 editor tabs are available.   2.       Shortcuts: No, I was not talking about shortcuts, instead the manual typing to change code. Example, current line: variables.x=”<p>Hello World!</p>”; Change to: variables.x=formatter.text(’<p><span class=”text-muted”>Hello World!</span></p>’);   3.       Tag indent performance: I may be able to setup a Webex session or something similar if you PM me.   4.       Dreamweaver: I understand that CF attempts to solve different problems and you gave good examples where Dreamweaver is less than optimal. The issue is that in most of your examples, and site development in general, JavaScript and CSS coding is a big portion of many projects and CFBuilder is much weaker than DW in this area. If you can bring JS and CSS capabilities close to DW, then it’s a one stop tool for CF development.   Again, thank you for taking time to address my issues. ... View more

As already mentioned, your misusing the xml document. Look at xmlSearch. There are some good examples around and it's easy once you get the hang of it. If the doc examples aren't detailed enough, google "coldfusion xmlsearch". ... View more

raksh naresh​, Another update on CFBuilder... By far, #1-3, and 5 on my prior list or issues with CFBuilder are my biggest peeves. With #1, global searching is basically useless in CFBuilder and I automatically open DreamWeaver CS5 for any searching. Assuming you can put focus on just the right objects to do a global search within a project, only being able to open a single hit at a time when making multiple edits is a real pain. Then re-searching but with completely different results (usually no results) because the object focus was not just right usually send me over the edge and my coworkers get a shower of colorful explicatives with Adobe as the focus point. With #2 & 3, I find myself spending more time fighting with the editor than actually editing when updating existing code. With #5, only the single level of tag auto-close seems to work. Example, typing: "<cfif ...><cflock ...>..</cflock></" - the </cflock> will automatically fill, but </cfif> will not. Then to make things really annoying, when <cflock> does close, it places the cursor just before the final > so if you are not watching the screen, this will be the result: "<cfif ...><cflock ...>..</cflock</cfif>>" or "<cfif ...><cflock ...>..</cflock</>>" if you thought auto-complete was going to help. Please feel free to pass this along to your CFBuilder peeps. My recommendation if you are going to continue down the CFBuilder path, steal someone from the DW staff and incorporate his/her knowledge into the CFB editor usability design. ... View more

raksh naresh​, I decided to force myself to use CFBuilder more to be able to provide you with additional feedback. A few things I did not realize CFBuilder did I found I like, but I still have quite a few issues. In no particular order: Global searching within a project is a pain starting with the fact that you can only expand one module at a time. It finds all the occurrences but I have not found a way to scan through all the hits for a specific pattern I'm looking for - I have to expand one module at a time just to see the match. The parenthesis and bracket helpers are great for typing code from scratch, but in my work I do quite a bit of cut & paste and adding a parenthesis to existing blocks is more keystrokes than the one-character the helper is saving. Same for single and double quotes. Selecting a block to indent or outdent, while it works, for some unknown reason is VERY slow. Sometime up to 10 seconds for a small block. This seems a little faster working with cfscript or javascript code, but tag format, V E R Y   S L O W! Most CF tag helpers seem to work fine but most CF function helpers don't seem to exist. I'm not a fan of the open module persistence. Not a big deal but forcing me to close modules from days past seems annoying. Somewhere I thought I found a code formatter, but all it seemed to do was remove blank lines. The Commands>Apply Source Code Formatting options of DW were much better. As mentioned before, the javascript helpers are not as nearly refined as DW. CSS coding, like JS coding, does not feel as refined as DW. Helpers are present but seem very finicky making the helper disappear to all but never return or "help" insert something I did not want. That's all I have off the top of my head for now. #1 & #8 above force me to use DW the most. Hope this helps. ... View more

Yes, the line you highlighted should not (cannot in my experience) be set development on a production server. Try canging that setting to "production" and restart your site - or reload it via the fb reload parameter and password. ... View more

I don't believe what you're describing has anything to do with ColdFusion. It sounds like an issue with whatever editor or IDE you are using. Are you possibly meaning CFBuilder? ... View more

I'm guessing a fusebox configuration issue of some sort. The only time I have seen behavior like you're describing is when the fusebox mode was set to "development-full-load" instead of "production". Fusebox is not thread safe in development-full-load mode and it can cause some strange results. Also make sure you have a parsed folder under your site root with read-write access - but I think this would throw a different exception. ... View more

RE: Can you tell me why you seem to hate builder? For me at this point, half or more of my development is client-side code with html5 and javascript. Hands down, CFBuilder cannot compare in this area to the capabilities of Dreamweaver - at least not the last time I used CFB. I did not know that DW added back in some support for CF; I'll give that a try when I get a chance to re-install the CC version of DW. ... View more

I've found it dangerous to "use database" with CF datasources. The database connections are shared and the connection could be left pointing to a different database than what CF is assuming. I'm not sure this has ever changed since we encountered strange issue with use database but one thing for certain is that you'll need to wrap your query calls within cftransaction block to for the same connection. <cftransaction> <cfquery>use database</cfquery> <cfquery>...</cfquery> <cfquery>...</cfquery> </cftransaction> But again, I would recommend against using "use database" and instead explicitly name the database in the query: SELECT x, y, z FROM [database].[dbo]. This assumes MSSQL. ... View more

I would look closely and compare the where clauses of your SQL statements. ... View more

I don't believe there is a concrete rule for this as it's really application or even instance specific of what the best choice is. Sometimes allowing one user to change the first name while another is updating the address is perfectly fine so you want the application to accommodate this. Other times the full name and address are treated as a single unit and the application may intentionally prevent isolated edits and return an error to one or both users. A better example of a single unit would be one person changing the street address while another is changing the city. The full address would/should be a single unit. So the the best answer may be: It depends. ... View more

RE: value vs. getValue() I have the same concerns but really I'm fairly new at incorporating beans in my code so I have not experimented enough to know if accessing getValue() and setValue() is a requirement, or just the way the samples I found did it. My experience with other languages is that you could simply access value and the getters and setters would automatically be called accordingly. ... View more

I've done it both ways and my recommendation on the "best" way: it depends. You have another thread going with a bean question and my "dirty" example would work here by only performing the update if dirty. You could go further in that hole by adding a dirty flag per field and building the update query based on only the fields that have change. Another option that simplifies things might be specific update function for single task like updateLastLogin which would only update a dateTime field. I'm not sure there is a one size fits all answer here. ... View more

ColdFusion can create default getters and setters for you using the accessors="true" property of the component tag and/or the getter="true" setter="true" properties of the individual property tags. I believe the getter/setter layer is available so you can override them for data massage or formatting or other business logic purposes. Consider the following updated setter from your first example: <cffunction name="setFirstName">        <cfargument name="firstName" required="true" type="string">      <cfif NOT isDefined("variables.instance.firstName") or compare(variables.instance.firstName,arguments.firstName)>             <cfset variables.instance.firstName = arguments.firstName />              <cfset variables.instance.dirty = true />       </cfif> </cffunction> Now you can base logic on whether or not changes have been made to a bean. ... View more