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Author: Dick Applebaum
Short Link: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/thread.cfm/threadid:32650#163870
Rick
You could use the concept of a thinArray to represent a CF query or
array and publish taht via a web service.
This web service could be easily consumed and manipulated as a query
by any client programming language that has split/join functions.
AFAIK, this includes JavaScript Flash ActionScrtpt and VBScript.
There are CFCs that serialize/deserialize cf queries and cf arrays into
thinArrays.
There are JavaScript routines that serialize/deserialize thinArrays and
allow manipulation of the [querey or array] recordset.
You can see/get the thinArray code at Rob Rohan's site.
http:///www.rohanclan.com/products/neuromancer/
Note: The client-side web-services part of Rob's Neuromancer system
only runs on newer browsers -- Mozilla, Firefox, etc. The client-side
thin array manipulation runs on any javaScript 1.0.
The server-side (including thinArrays) runs on anything.
HTH
Dick
P.S. It is flexible, concise, and very fast
On May 20, 2004, at 9:14 AM, Rick Root wrote:
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Author: Rick Root
Short Link: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/thread.cfm/threadid:32650#163819
Dave Watts wrote:
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Thanks Robert, after reading your response I found this technote
describing the process:
http://www.macromedia.com/support/coldfusion/ts/documents/cfc_datatypes_webservices.htm
- Rick
Author: Dave Watts
Short Link: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/thread.cfm/threadid:32650#163799
> I heard someone mention passing using a CFC data type but I
> don't really know what that means.. I must've missed that
> session at MAX last year :)
You can define a custom data type using a CFC with nothing but CFPROPERTY
tags. You can then specify that CFC as your RETURNTYPE attribute value.
There's an example in the CF documentation, I think.
Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
http://www.figleaf.com/
phone: 202-797-5496
fax: 202-797-5444
Author: Rick Root
Short Link: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/thread.cfm/threadid:32650#163793
Since Flash doesn't understand query objects, I often find myself
returning an array of structures (using the QueryToArrayOfStructures()
function that I found on cflib)... it works well with Flash but not with
other platforms... like VB doesn't know what a structure is.
What are my alternatives for passing query data to a VB application?
I heard someone mention passing using a CFC data type but I don't really
know what that means.. I must've missed that session at MAX last year :)
Thanks.
- Rick
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