I wonder if I could get some clarification on the usage of

$

as a prefix to method names in CFWheels. It seems to me that this is used in lieu of actually making a method private. The only reference I have been able to find for this in the docs is a mention in passing:

If you have functions that should only be called from the plugin itself, we recommend starting the function name with the

$

character (this is how many internal Wheels functions are named as well)

(my emphasis, and that is from https://guides.cfwheels.org/docs/developing-plugins#using-a-plugin-to-add-or-alter-capabilities) I could find no other explicit explanation, but

$

is hard to google for, so this means nothing. I didn't find anything further searching for "private" or "internal" either, that said. I want code to run every time a model object is created. Normally I would put this in the constructor of the class, but for reasons that I cannot fathom, CFWheels does not call

init

when it creates an object. So that's no good. I have found

$createInstance

in

wheels.Model

, and if I override that in my own models, it seems to work as I'd expect. Certainly when I call

new

/

findOne

/

findAll

on the model factory object, it seems to be called on the returned model object(s). However I am cautious that it's a method prefixed with

$

, therefore "internal" to CFWheels. I should probably not be messing with it, or calling it directly (even in an overridden implementation of itself). So is there a more CFWheels-idiomatic way of doing this? Or am I fine with this approach? Cheers.

@Adam Cameron could you not use the

afterInitialization()

Callback Function. https://guides.cfwheels.org/docs/object-callbacks

Oooh, I'll look at that tomorrow (in the pub watching sportsball ATM). Thanks dude.