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problems with event.BuildLink in Coldbox

2010-06-04T16:31:11-05:00

Hi I am having trouble using event.BuildLink in coldbox. Hi I am wondering if there is a way to regenerate the URL when any page is loaded in coldbox when using event.buildLink ? Currently I get http://cawksd05.codandev.local:8080/entries/editor when using event.buildlink. But the correct url should have /index.cfm added to it as shown below: /index.cfm/entries/editor Is there a way to set this once and where does this get set as I am confused where to set this for all my pages so that /index.cfm gets added the the url prefix when I do an event.Buildlink. Please see my code for the routes.cfm below: // General Properties setUniqueURLS(false); setAutoReload(false); // Base URL if( len(getSetting('AppMapping') ) lte 1){ setBaseURL("http://#cgi.HTTP_HOST#/index.cfm"); } else{ setBaseURL("http://#cgi.HTTP_HOST#/#getSetting('AppMapping')#/index.cfm"); } // Your Application Routes formatConstraints = {format="(xml|json)"}; addRoute(pattern="/api/:format/tasks/completed",handler="tasksAPI",action="list",constraints=formatConstraints,completed=true); addRoute(pattern="/api/:format/tasks",handler="tasksAPI",action="list",constraints=formatConstraints); addRoute(pattern="/api/:format?",handler="tasksAPI",action="invalid"); addRoute(pattern="/tasks/list/:status?",handler="tasks",action="index"); addRoute(pattern=":handler/:action?");

Renderer locateView "bug"

2010-06-03T06:12:29-05:00

This is a long running issue that we've had with the renderer. In most of our applications, due to the way we structure them, we have ColdFusion mappings for the main site as well as to external views. When you build up a view path using a mapping rather than a physical folder in the top level of a view expandPath will throw you a whammy... (See my blog post here from ages ago for why : http://nil.checksite.co.uk/index.cfm/2008/9/11/getdirectoryfrommapping-function-to-solve-a-problem-with-expandpath) coldbox.system.plugins.Renderer.locateView() will generate a path using the mapping, which is correct, but when you call expandPath() on this path it will return the name of the template currently being called. When you then call FileExists() you get a "true" returned, because its looking at the current template and not the view. This means that external views are never returned from locateView() We had just been hacking some code in to handle our specific situation, but I've just rewritten it to be more generic and thought I would attempt to explain the problem and post my solution (in the vain hope that it ends up in the core code and I don't have to hack it every time we download a new version of ColdBox ;) ). Bascially, rather than checking to see if the file exists I check to make sure that the template name at the end of the physical path is the same as the one at the end of the relational/mapping path. Here's the code. It should make perfect sense. :) [code] // Default path is the conventions var viewPath = "/#instance.appMapping#/#instance.viewsConvention#/#arguments.view#"; var extViewPath = "#instance.viewsExternalLocation#/#arguments.view#"; var viewPathPhysical = expandPath(viewPath & ".cfm"); var extViewPathPhysical = expandPath(extViewPath & ".cfm"); var slash = iif(findnocase("window",server.os.name),de('\'),de('/')); // Check if view does not exists in Conventions // ExpandPath bug fix if ( ListLast(viewPathPhysical,slash) NEQ ListLast(viewPath&".cfm","/") AND fileExists(extViewPathPhysical) ) { return extViewPath; } return viewPath; [/code] Regards Stephen

RE: setNextRoute

2010-05-27T20:59:34-05:00

Still can't get this to work with setNextRoute(). Has anybody got a viable working example of setNextRoute using the persist argument?

RE: setNextRoute

2010-05-27T07:10:22-05:00

I think I just realized what I was doing wrong. Sorry to bother :)

setNextRoute

2010-05-27T07:05:36-05:00

I'm trying to use setNextRoute with the 'persist' attribute and the routing works but my persisted variables (structure and a query) are not visible. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

RE: Facebook Connect

2010-05-26T22:12:14-05:00

@grapestack Thanks for the offer. Whats the best way to contact you? cheers.

Width problem in CFGrid example

2010-05-25T13:03:34-05:00

CB 2.6.4 CF9 Windows XP sp3 Apache server Just looked at the cfgrid example in the coldbox examples and found the cfgrid does not work because the width is set to 100%. Actually, this looks like a bug in CF9's implementation OR in the CF9 docs. The example has the format="html" which SHOULD allow percentages, but it doesn't. The CF9 cfgrid docs say "In Flash and applet format, must be a number of pixels. In HTML format, can be in any valid CSS measurement unit, and a numeric-only value specifies pixels. If you omit the attribute in Flash or HTML format; the grid sizes automatically." You should probably just omit the width="" or set autowidth="true" .

RE: MXUnit cannot find Application scope in V3 beta

2010-05-25T11:10:44-05:00

put an application.cfc in mxunit.framework. it works for me.

coldboxproxy: Double Execution from JS call

2010-05-25T07:31:45-05:00

coldboxproxy: Double Execution from JS call A simplified version of what I ran into: Create a coldboxproxy class: /remote/MyProxy.cfc [code] [/code] Create a class that uses the proxy in JS, in this case a button that executes the JS MyProxyUse.cfm [code] coldboxproxy class---> [/code] Connected to the server in the debugger you will see two calls to the doAnything method from the coldboxproxy code for each single click on the button.

Coldbox 30.0. utilities

2010-05-22T08:42:36-05:00

Recently I looked into the utilities plugin just to explore. THere are some handy functions but I but have a few questions about their implementation: It's about this cfc: coldbox.plugins.utilities placeHolderReplacer(): var regex = "\$\{([0-9a-z\-\.\_]+)\}"; Why not incorporate A-Z in the RegEx as well insteasd of only a-z? readFile(): Why is there no locking here during file reading?? saveFile(): Why is there no locking here during file write? Isn't it best practice to use name-based locking with all file operations? Marc

Coldboxproxy duplicate proxy calls

2010-05-21T09:30:30-05:00

I have the following issue using a coldboxproxy call. My set up is as follows: Cfgrid: loaded through proxy call, Onchange has no effect ( though mapped ) so that user can save mulitple edits not save each edit. My save, delete and new buttons map to javascript functions that make coldboxproxy calls to perfrom their actions. When any of the buttons are selected the following occurs 1 call to the javascript function 2 calls to the proxy cffunction executed from the coldboxproxy code. 2 calls to the service layer functions. I have followed the execution in debugger as well as added tracking in the javascript to ensure that the call from the JS is only being made once. Yet the coldboxproxy calls into the proxy class twice on each user-based execution. I don't want to dump all my code here ( and I'm sure you don't want me to either) so I will post the bare bones of one of the methods. I am new to coldfusion and coldbox so I am sure it will be mis-use on my part but I have not been able to track it down as of yet. Any suggestions, observations and/or corrections welcome. Simplifed code RoleCFM.cfm [code] var roleFunction = function() { // code that builds toolbar and adds buttons, I will just leave the delete var gtbar = new Ext.Toolbar({ renderTo: tbar, items: [{ iconCls: 'delete', tooltip:"Delete Selected", handler: function(){onDelete(this);} } ] }); // set the paging toolbar to the bottom toolbar }; /** * */ function onDelete(){ // retrieve the reference to the grid var grid = ColdFusion.Grid.getGridObject("RoleGrid"); // retrieve the selected record from the selection model var record = grid.getSelectionModel().getSelected(); // retrieve the role name from the record and get confirmation from the user var name = record.get('ROLE_NAME'); var deleteConfirm=confirm("Delete: " + name); // if the user confirms retrieve the proxy and execute the deletion from store and database if (deleteConfirm == true) { // retrieve role proxy so that database can be accessed var rproxy = new roleProxy(); // execute the deletion through the proxy rproxy.deleteRole(record.get('ROLE_UID')); // refresh the grid ColdFusion.Grid.refresh('RoleGrid', true); } } [/code] Here is the simplified proxy RoleProxy.cfc [code] [/code] Here is the simplified service layer RoleService.cfc [code] /** * A service layer that handles all Role operations */ component output="false" singleton { /** * */ void function remove(roleID) output=false access="remote"{ transaction{ // get Role var role = getRoleByID(roleID); if (not isNull(role.getRole_UID())) { entityDelete(role); } } } } [/code]

changes from M4 to M5 release?

2010-05-21T08:38:57-05:00

Hi, is there a link to the changes from M4 to M5 release? I get a message lanlog or something not found in component when upgrading.

Coldbox after CF9 upgrade issue

2010-05-19T04:56:59-05:00

Something strange has happened to one of our websites using Coldbox after we upgrade to CF9. I now get the error message below. however all mapping are the same and other CB sites on the same server works. the error is looking for layoutHome but i dont use layoutHome.cfm and have no idea where it is getting this from and there is not reference in my code to this file. its also just ignoring my handler etc the coldbox config is poting to the right default event. nothing has changed other than a CF9 updrade. anyone got an idea why? thanks :) [code] Application Execution Exception Error Type: MissingInclude : [N/A] Error Messages: Could not find the included template //layouts/layoutHome.cfm. Note: If you wish to use an absolute template path (for example, template="/mypath/index.cfm") with CFINCLUDE, you must create a mapping for the path using the ColdFusion Administrator. Or, you can use per-application settings to specify mappings specific to this application by specifying a mappings struct to THIS.mappings in Application.cfc. Using relative paths (for example, template="index.cfm" or template="../index.cfm") does not require the creation of any special mappings. It is therefore recommended that you use relative paths with CFINCLUDE whenever possible. [/code]

RE: ForgeBox Module and 3.0M5

2010-05-18T09:41:32-05:00

Si is correct. [code] modelMappings = {}; modelMappings["forgeService@forgebox"] = {path = "ForgeService"}; [/code] Will give you the same result without tripping over CF9 specific code.

Modules and Coldspring

2010-05-18T08:17:17-05:00

I would like to keep the coldspring definition for my modules separate from the parent application. Is it possible to do this? I don't see IOC has part of the moduleConfig. What is the best practice for this?

RE: ForgeBox Module and 3.0M5

2010-05-18T05:37:50-05:00

It's coldfusion 9 isn't it!?

RE: lightwire not resolving property setters

2010-05-15T10:19:23-05:00

Found what the issue was. There is a difference in the way CS and LB work. Quite a big one. For CB if you have a function called setName, in the configxcml you say [code] Bob [/code] In the setName function the arg can called be called anything. For lightbox the argument in the function MUST also be called name. which means you would have to go through all your code and change the argument names. Yuk! I modified the version of lightbox.cfc that comes with 2.6.4.Its just the one function that sets properties. Basiically it uses positional rather than named argument resolution if the function only has 1 argument. [code] [/code]

lightwire not resolving property setters

2010-05-14T13:33:20-05:00

I have 2.6.4 version of cb on cf 8. I have the very annoying issue of lightwire not executing property setters. My bean config is a small coldspring file with one bean def. [code] bob [code] on the component there is a setProp1 function that sets this.prop1 = arguments.prop1. I get the component like.. [code] iocObj = getPlugin("ioc").getIocFactory(); aobj = iocObj.getBean("adesBean"); ... [/code] In the above this.prop1 is never set. Even if i put in an abort it never executes. I am using a coldbox settings file that was defined initially for 2.6.0. [code] [/code] Any ideas would be muchly appreciated. It defeinetly calls constructors and does settings replacement.

RE: Converting Existing Applications

2010-05-13T18:48:18-05:00

I would also be interested in anyone had any experience using legacy code in the middle of a refactor job to Coldbox.

RE: Converting Existing Applications

2010-05-13T18:47:33-05:00

1. Document everything. Get a good spec. 2. Setup a conversion plan to migrate fast enough so that you don't have to make many (if any) new changes.