cfdump [unknown type]

anyone ever get this when you <cfdump var="#cfcatch#"> [unknown type] thanks ...tony tony weeg senior web applications architect navtrak, inc. www.navtrak.net tony@navtrak.net 410.548.2337

If I remember correctly, you have to Duplicate() the CFCATCH struct to be able to dump it. anyone ever get this when you <cfdump var="#cfcatch#"> [unknown type] thanks ...tony tony weeg senior web applications architect navtrak, inc. www.navtrak.net tony@navtrak.net 410.548.2337

uhhh I didn't have to yesterday. is this something new today? :) me If I remember correctly, you have to Duplicate() the CFCATCH struct to be able to dump it. anyone ever get this when you <cfdump var="#cfcatch#"> [unknown type] thanks ...tony tony weeg senior web applications architect navtrak, inc. www.navtrak.net tony@navtrak.net 410.548.2337

Ah, silly me.  I was thinking about what you need to do to be able to access the CFCATCH struct outside of the cfcatch opening and closing tags...  That is where your CFDUMP tag is, correct?  Maybe pasting the surrounding code would help... uhhh I didn't have to yesterday. is this something new today? :) me If I remember correctly, you have to Duplicate() the CFCATCH struct to be able to dump it.

it's a query... that's wrapped in a cftry/cfcatch series of tags... the error was in the sql code, and the cfdump didn't know what to do with the error. it was strange. thanks ....tony Tony Weeg sr. web applications architect navtrak, inc. tony@navtrak.net 410.548.2337 www.navtrak.net Ah, silly me.  I was thinking about what you need to do to be able to access the CFCATCH struct outside of the cfcatch opening and closing tags...  That is where your CFDUMP tag is, correct?  Maybe pasting the surrounding code would help... uhhh I didn't have to yesterday. is this something new today? :) me If I remember correctly, you have to Duplicate() the CFCATCH struct to be able to dump it.

Tony, I have a custom tag that I wrote to display exception information and it catches some of the random error that happen when just cfdumping a cfcatch variable.  Call it like: <cf_showexception exception="#cfcatch#"/> I put it below. Paul Kenney paul@pjk.us 916-212-4359 ---START CODE--- <cffunction name="parseStackTrace" returntype="array" output="false">   <cfargument name="StackTrace" type="array" required="true"/>   <cfargument name="Mask" type="string" required="false"/>   <!---  --->   <cfset var aGroup = ArrayNew(1)>   <cfset var LineNumMask = "L" & RepeatString("0", Len(toString(ArrayLen(Arguments.StackTrace))))>   <cfset var ElemMask = "[i] -- c.m( ) -- f:l">   <cfset var i = 0>   <cfset var j = 0>   <cfset var maskChar = "">   <cfset var Elem = StructNew()>   <cfset var ret = ArrayNew(1)>   <cfset Elem["Val"] = "">   <cfset Elem["Str"] = "">   <cfset Elem["Pos"] = "">   <cfset Elem["Class"] = "">   <cfset Elem["File"] = "">   <cfif StructKeyExists(Arguments, "Mask")>     <cfset ElemMask = Arguments.Mask>   </cfif>   <cfif NOT Len(ElemMask)>     <cfset ElemMask = "*">   </cfif>   <!--- Loop over the indexes of the "Arguments.StackTrace" array in reverse order. --->   <cfloop index="j" from="#ArrayLen(Arguments.StackTrace)#" to="0" step="-1">     <cfif NOT j OR ListFind("runFunction,runPage,service", Arguments.StackTrace[j].getMethodName(), ",")>       <cfset ArrayPrepend(ret, aGroup)>       <cfif NOT j>         <cfbreak/>       </cfif>       <cfset aGroup = ArrayNew(1)>     </cfif>     <cfset Elem.Val = Arguments.StackTrace[j]>     <cfset Elem.Str = "">     <!--- Loop over the characters in the "ElemMask". --->     <cfloop index="i" from="1" to="#Len(ElemMask)#">       <cfscript>         maskChar = Mid(ElemMask, i, 1);         switch(maskChar)         {           case "c":    // Class name             Elem.Str = Elem.Str & Elem.Val.getClassName();             break;           case "f":    // Filename             Elem.Str = Elem.Str & Elem.Val.getFileName();             break;           case "i":    // Current Index into the StackTrace array.             Elem.Str = Elem.Str & NumberFormat(j, LineNumMask);             break;           case "l":    // Line number in file.             Elem.Str = Elem.Str & Elem.Val.getLineNumber();             break;           case "m":    // Method name             Elem.Str = Elem.Str & Elem.Val.getMethodName();             break;           case "*":             Elem.Str = Elem.Str & Elem.Val.toString();             break;           default:             Elem.Str = Elem.Str & maskChar;         }       </cfscript>     </cfloop>     <cfset ArrayPrepend(aGroup, Elem.Str)>   </cfloop>   <cfreturn ret/> </cffunction> <cfparam name="Attributes.Exception" type="any" default=""/> <cfif IsDebugMode()>   <cfif NOT IsSimpleValue(Attributes.Exception)>     <cfset catch = Attributes.Exception>   <cfelseif StructKeyExists(Caller, "cfcatch")>     <cfset catch = Caller.cfcatch>   <cfelse>     <cfexit method="exittag"/>   </cfif> <cfelse>   <cfexit method="exittag"/> </cfif> <cfset ThisTag.Info = StructNew()> <cfset ThisTag.Stacks = StructNew()> <cfloop collection="#catch#" item="key">   <cfset Dest = "Info">   <cfset Value = "">   <cftry>     <cfswitch expression="#key#">       <cfcase value="StackTrace">         <cfinclude template="#Request.UDF#/us/pjk/debug/parseStackTrace.cfm"/>         <cfset Value = parseStackTrace(catch.StackTrace)>         <cfset Dest = "Stacks">       </cfcase>       <cfcase value="TagContext">         <cfset Value = catch[key]>         <cfset Dest = "Stacks">       </cfcase>       <cfcase value="objectType">         <cfif IsObject(catch[key])>           <cfset Value = catch.objectType.getName()>         <cfelse>           <cfset Value = catch.objectType>         </cfif>         <cfset Dest = "Info">       </cfcase>       <cfdefaultcase>         <cfset Value = catch[key]>         <cfset Dest = "Info">         <cfif IsObject(Value)>           <cfset Value = Value.toString()>         </cfif>         <cfif IsSimpleValue(Value)>           <cfset Value = ReplaceList(Value, ">,<,"", ">,<,""")>         </cfif>       </cfdefaultcase>     </cfswitch>     <cfset ThisTag[Dest][key] = Value>     <cfcatch type="any">       <!--- Do nothing here. --->     </cfcatch>   </cftry> </cfloop> <cfif StructKeyExists(ThisTag.Stacks, "TagContext") AND NOT StructKeyExists(ThisTag.Info, "Template")>   <cfif IsArray(ThisTag.Stacks.TagContext) AND ArrayLen(ThisTag.Stacks.TagContext)>     <cfset ThisTag.Info["Template"] = ThisTag.Stacks.TagContext[1].Template>   </cfif> </cfif> <cfif StructCount(ThisTag.Stacks)>   <cfset LeftWidth = "75%">   <cfset HeaderColSpan = "3">   <cfset ShowRight = TRUE> <cfelse>   <cfset LeftWidth = "100%">   <cfset HeaderColSpan = "1">   <cfset ShowRight = TRUE> </cfif> <cfoutput> <br><br> <table border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td>   <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" style="background:0000cc;color:ffffff;">     <tr><td align="center"><span style="font: bold 14pt Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- EXCEPTION -</span></td></tr>   </table>   <br>   <table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" width="100%">     <tr><td>       <table>         <tr valign="top">           <td width="#LeftWidth#">             <cfdump var="#ThisTag.Info#" label="Exception Information" expand="true"/>           </td>           <cfif ShowRight>             <td> </td>             <td><cfdump var="#ThisTag.Stacks#" label="Trace Information" expand="false"/></td>           </cfif>         </tr>       </table>     </td></tr>   </table> </td></tr></table> </cfoutput> <cfexit method="exittag"/>

Hi Tony, Yeah, I've noticed this a lot since the CFMX 6.1 Updater. I never had this problem before applying the updater.  It's now appearing all over the place. Have you found the cause for this yet, or any solutions? Thanks. Tony (another) ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----

I think this is sort of a "bugfix" in the updater for the endless loop error you sometimes get when you try to dump an error which has a type of "coldfusion.runtime.UndefinedElementException" or "coldfusion.runtime.UndefinedVariableException". >anyone ever get this when you <cfdump var="#cfcatch#"> > >[unknown type]

Well it's rubbish, my code that used to simply try/catch a piece of code, if there was an error, passed the cfcatch structure to a custom tag which then handles it.  It's now royally broken. I've now either got to use the custom tag suggested above, or rely on cferror to handle all my specific errors.  Which is the wrong method, but about the only one I can get working. I would suggest MM gather a hotfix to resolve this problem, because I'm sure it can't just be me encountering this problem. Tony ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more ----- type]

Tony, This issue has already been discussed a few times on this list. You can use the search engine to find people's solutions. My solution was to code my own CFDUMP tag, which is 90% the same as the original CFDUMP, but has special handling for CFCATCH. The CFMX6.1 updater includes a hotfix which changes the behavior of CFDUMP. It fixes the dumping of some objects, while breaking the dumping of cfcatch. Good luck, Mike Chabot