Ran into an interesting thing. This code works fine:

<cfset local.result = getModel("personS").PMRoleUpdateProductPosition(
	listToArray(arguments.rc.productIDs).map((product_id) => {
		return {
			product_id = arguments.product_id,
			context_type = rc.context_type
		};
	}),
	arguments.rc.contextStatus,
	arguments.rc.person_id
) />

until I make some other seemingly unrelated changes somewhere else in the file, far away, like changing this

<cfif
  (...

to this

<cfif (...

and this

<cfif blah>
  <!--- some comment --->

to this

<cfif blah> <!--- some comment --->

Then, CF is like unhandled exception "Invalid CFML construct found on line n" complaining about the

}

character on the 7th line of the first bit of code. If I refactor it a bit to this, no complaints and it runs fine:

<cfset local.productsArray = listToArray(arguments.rc.productIDs) />
<cfset local.productsWithTypes = local.productsArray.map((product_id) => {
	return { product_id = arguments.product_id, context_type = rc.context_type };
}) />
<cfset local.result = getModel("personS").PMRoleUpdateProductPosition(local.productsWithTypes, arguments.rc.contextStatus, arguments.rc.person_id ) />

Why would the exact same code not have a syntax error before those unrelated, distant changes, but die once they're made?

granted, I'm doing a cfscript closure in CFML, but I've done that many many times w/o problems. And it works. Perfectly. In this case. Before the unrelated changes.

I'm wondering if it's some tokenization bug in CF itself.

I'm also tempted to follow the old chestnut about the guy who goes to his doctor and says "doc, when I go like this, it hurts!", and the doctor says "don't do that". I'm ok with being pragmatic and just leaving it as the 2nd version of the code where I take it a step at a time.

Just that some poor sap is going to come behind me and see that these lines could be simplified a bit, put it back to the original, and break it w/o realizing

😭

that's not a doctor, that's a cf tag shaman, and who knows what's in his cauldron

any difference with Lucee vs. acf?

Hey guys, trying to wrap my head around the anti-CSRF tokens, generation/verification. For each of my forms I have it generating a token. I'm assuming we would want the verification done in Application.cfc / onRequestStart ? Is my thinking in the right direction here? Thanks.

I dont guess theres still a cfdocs channel, but the fact that the

log

function is linked from the

cflog

page is humorous to me https://cfdocs.org/cflog 😄

Does anyone know of a way I could set a timeout on a DirectoryExists() or FileExists() call in Lucee? We have files stored in Amazon EFS, and once in a while the file system is unreachable. A few pages in our web app check if certain files exist when the page loads, and if EFS is unreachable, the page won't load. The real fix will be figuring out why we sometimes can't connect to EFS, but being able to set a timeout on the FileExists() call would be helpful in the meantime

Just upgraded from 2016 -> 2021 on production and everything worked! about 4 tickets of things we knew already would kerplode but other than having to install the QoQ hotfix its going rather smoothly. Fingers crossed it continues that way

Hey fellas, Is it possible to create fractals in coldfusion? I don't see why not. I made Mandelbrot fractals in visual basic and Perl back in the day. They're implemented in python and php using the GD library. Has anyone attempted this in cf? Maybe @ben?

I'm working on a POC with cf-2021 and mongodb (atlas). Is there a best practice for handling find() and findOne() results? I was working with findOne(), and if it finds a hit, then all is good, findOne() returns the document. But then I intentionally wanted to see what happens when a match is not found, and the behaviour seems strange:

var findResponse = this.findOne( query={ "_id": "mid:#mid#[invalidkey]" } );
		application.utilities.debug( module="daoI4goV5.getMerchant", text="Find #mid#", data=findResponse );

The debug line threw an exception because findResponse did not exist. Is this intentional and is there a best practice for handling this, meaning "try/catch", "isdefined()", "isnull()" (I'm not sure if the last even works, just throwing it out there)?

Hey guys, trying to implement anti-CSRF tokens, and having trouble accessing form info in the

onRequestStart()

hook in

Application.cfc

. Is it possible? When I output

form

it is just an empty struct ☹️

is

self

a keyword or scope or otherwise magic identifier?

Any alternatives to “JavaMail” for decoding email MIME in ColdFusion? Preferably a native method.

Ok Hi everyone - it is late after 2am and my brain has stopped. I have a struct that I have created with

answerStr = {
    "Value" = "Value-1",
    "Description" = "Description-1"
};
questionsStruct["Q1"] = answerStr;
answerStr = {
    "Value" = "Value-2",
    "Description" = "Description-2"
};
questionsStruct["Q2"] = answerStr;

Now I want the following outcome in my table

<tr>
<td>Q1</td>
<td>Value-1</td>
<td>Description-1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Q2</td>
<td>Value-2</td>
<td>Description-2</td>
</tr>

I have tried with the following (and so many other flavours.... DOT notaion Square Brackets without DOTS / with DOTS / with Quotes / without Quotes... I just can't seem to get it to output the actual contents of the structs I can get the contents of the TD cell to look like the string literal;

aQuestion.Q1.Value

- but not what it should evaluate to.... I tried wrapping the contents in

DE()

, I tried

saveContent()

....

i=0;
cfloop(collection=questionsStruct item="aQuestion"){
    i++;
    writeOutput('
        <tr>
            <td>Q#i#</td>
            <td>aQuestion.Q#i#.#Value#</td>
            <td>Q#i#.Description</td>
         </tr>
    ');
}

Anyway - if someone wouldn't mind helping me out - I'd really appreciate it!

I'm trying to implement an updated SSO solution using SAML in ACF 2021. Would you protect a given application by putting the InitSAMLAuthRequest() in the onRequestStart in the Application.cfc? That would seem to call it with every request, which doesn't seem right though. And how does the value of relaystate effect this?

Need help understanding how session works in either cfengine.

if I define a variable in within a function - with "var"; Is it in the LOCAL or VARIABLES scope? Thanks!

Looking for a little pointer. I’m working integrating the OAuth2 CFC found in Forgebox, but I’m having some trouble seeing how to tie it into my session management. Looking at the doc pointer, there appears to have been a good starter doc here: http://www.progratory.com/index.cfm/2014/10/31/Getting-started-with-oauth2-for-Google, but that’s now gone 404. I’ve downloaded and set up the OAuth2-Examples from Forgebox, but I’m still a bit confused as to how to just use our Google Domain as the OAuth2 source for our SIS app (which I wrote in CF). I’ve looked for any YT videos or CFCasts, but nothing available. Any good documentation or examples pointers would be greatly appreciated.

can i run node with cfexecute

recommendations for image processing in CF? we have user photo uploads right now that we accept jpg/png and limit them to 4MB size, but we'd like to allow any size (up to like 100MB or something) and resize it on the server to fit our desired size, and also convert things like HEIC to jpg. Anyone got anything they're using currently that works for them?

i have an error handler module, it works withe every single project, i want to make it one project for all sites a common place

because different sites use different datasources

any idea, suggestions

We have ACF 2021 in a Docker container with Kubernetes and we need to programmatically restart the CF server. Can this be done via <cfexecute>?

Q: does cbSwagger works with the old Routes.cfm ?

I am getting errors when trying to generate a YML file with cbSwagger, I think it only works with the new Router.cfc but need a confirmation, because if it works with the old Routes.cfm then there is something wrong in my routes configuration, thanks