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Are there any updates in the language side of things or is it all "infrastructure" stuff?

There's 4 new functions added which are related to serialization that's done in GCP but the docs for those are not posted yet (@saghosh can ping the channel when they go live). The rest is, well... not infrastructure per say but non-language specific features (other than, you know, adding GraphQL...)

Yes, I'll update the channel once they're all in. Thank you everyone. Looking forward to your feedback.

Are there any updates in the language side of things

Put it this way... I've already finished with my testing of it, if that answers your question.

showing my age, but i remember opening the binary for a beta of cf3 or 4 or something and finding undocumented (yet) fuinctions. also using getFunctionList() (if I remember the name right)

Haha, yeah, sure. Maybe I'm showing my age but I'm not prepared to sniff around looking for stuff that should be well signposted. Also: part of testing this stuff is comparing actual behaviour with documented behaviour. Can't do that without the docs. It's a waste of time guessing how stuff should work. For now I'm gonna assume there's nothing I care about in this release other than the few existing bugs they claim to have fixed that are language-ish. So... nothing to test. I'll go do something else.

Oh to be clear, wasn't saying you should do all that. Sorry - just rambling. :)

You are old.

And

getFunctionList()

won't tell you anything about actual language enhancements...

Hi everyone. I've uploaded the docs for the four serialization-related functions. Please check the PR forum for more details. The pdf is located in Downloads > Documentation. Avro and Protocol Buffer.pdf These are the new functions: 1. serializeAVRO 2. deserializeAVRO 3. serializeProtoBuf 4. deserializeProtoBuf Please head over to the PR site for more details.

@saghosh Not sure why you tagged me? I wasn't involved with alpha testing and generally only look at language changes (because I don't find value in added functions and libraries, since CF already has Java interop -- and pretty much all the "bells & whistles" you add are things I'd use a Java library for).

I think he tagged you because the Avro and Protobuff changes are additions to the language, and you said you were interested in language updates and changes so...

They are not language changes. They're just extra functions that wrap stuff I'd do with a Java library, if I needed to work with Avro or ProtoBuf (which I don't).

There's 3 language related issues. CF-4212393 CF-4204497 CF-3844972 Per Adam & Suchika, the last one is only partially fixed (but the missing portion is listed in a separate bug tracker item, CF-4216175, which is still in progress. But if you're not interested, I can ask Saurov to un-tag you (though since you posted in this thread, you'll still get pinged I guess).

It was a genuine question about the tagging, no a request to be untagged. I'll go look at those three tickets. Thanks, @Mark Takata (Adobe)

@seancorfield https://hub.docker.com/r/adobecoldfusion/fortuna

Yep Adam called it. Also up on ECR https://gallery.ecr.aws/adobe/fortuna

Up and running with your Docker setup @Adam Cameron -- thank you!

Apologies, Adam.

Hi @saghosh I didn't know you owed Adam an apology?

I think you all do. In yer own way.

I am showing my age, I read actual Macromedia books, and then Adobe books, actually published by some of the folks on this list. I remember opening up my MX Studio CD and finding all the candy like included software, coldfusion included.