Comments on: Implicit Structures in ColdFusion 8

By: Simon

Simon — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:53:52 +0000

@tristan that's right. If you use array notation, you're able to keep the case of the structure names, e.g. myStruct["myKey"] = "myValue". This will produce a key called "myKey". However, using dot notation, e.g. myStruct.myKey = "myValue", will result in the key being upper case.

By: Tristan Lee

Tristan Lee — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:28:32 +0000

Simon,

This is a good article. I do have some clarifictions though. In your examples with implicit structure definitions, the keys change their case to upper case. However, you can create an implicit struct that keeps case by simply wrapping the keys in quotations.

will keep it’s case.

By: Jono

Jono — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 22:30:37 +0000

Hi I’m new in CF, i’m trying to call a method from a cfc that returns a array with objects (with gets and sets), but I can’t cast the objects inside it, it comes as a struct, is there any way to do this? by the way i’m using cf 8. thanks

By: Jordan

Jordan — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:07:59 +0000

Good news, with the 8.1 update release you can now created nested implicit structures and arrays!

By: Simon

Simon — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 14:59:51 +0000

I’m glad you like the articles. It is funny you should mention cfajaxproxy; it is an area I was discuss with a friend recently.

All I can say is watch this space…

By: Michael Brennan-White

Michael Brennan-White — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 13:16:12 +0000

Simon,

Your series have been very informative. At first they may seems to be a review but you always sneak in nuggets of gold (in this case the error when nesting structures) that hopefully will sink into my brain this time.

So, when are you going to start the multi-week series to provide the definitive guide to everything that can be accomplished with cfajaxproxy?