Is there a Lucee replacement for createObject("jav...
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glook
02/14/2024, 7:49 PMIs there a Lucee replacement for createObject("java", "coldfusion.util.HTMLTools").parseQueryString(stringToParse) ?
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bdw429s
02/14/2024, 8:14 PMThe ColdBox framework does this if I recall. It's only a few lines of code to write a query string parsing function
bdw429s
02/14/2024, 8:14 PMAccording to CoPilot, the JDK doesn't have anything pre-built for this
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bdw429s
02/14/2024, 8:17 PMHere's some code I found
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var virtualRC = {};
args.listToArray( "&" )
.each( function( item ){
virtualRC[ item.getToken( 1, "=" ).trim() ] = urlDecode( item.getToken( 2, "=" ).trim() );
} );bdw429s
02/14/2024, 8:18 PMfunny because that's about 10 times less code than the Java code CoPilot gave me when I asked if the JDK had a way to do this, lol
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gavinbaumanis
02/15/2024, 1:14 AMCo-pilot is useful as a resource.
But I don't find myself using what it suggests, verbatim.
There always seems to be a "better" way to do it.
And I don't just mean in the context of "my" application - or from a perspective of what "I" prefer...
But in a "general-ness" (word I just made up!) ... it offers a lot of code that looks like my "early" solutions to problems.
Which I suppose is telling in the sense of how much "shitty" code is out there - that it has learnt from - that it now offers as "the" solution to a given problem.
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bdw429s
02/15/2024, 3:54 PMYeah, I'd say copilot is wrong in int's initial answer about 50% of the time. It's still useful and can write menial stuff for me, but if I had a dollar every time I've told it "yeah, that's not right" and then it apologizes, I'd have a lot of dollars.
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gavinbaumanis
02/15/2024, 11:14 PMI use it as a guide....
Eg - lets just assume that I have completely forgotten how to write a bubble-sort...
I'll just ask co-pilot to do it for me....
Then - ion reading the suggestion - the way "I Know" - normally follows, pretty quickly.
In this land of remote work since covid - I use it as a wall to bounce thoughts (and prayers 🙂 ) off!
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glook
02/27/2024, 1:26 PMI like how it at least pretends to be nice.
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