evaluate() is still a cry for help

Posted At : July 31, 2011 11:57 PM | Posted By : Admin
Related Categories: coldfusion

Line 169 of Entity.cfc from Blade 0.62 (an ORM example):

evaluate('this.set#local.property#(arguments.properties[local.property])');

Even with all the CF9 conventions this is still the only way to do it?

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Mike Kelp's Gravatar Looks to me like you could easily use the cfinvoke tag. Then you get dynamic method calling like you are trying to do.

cfinvoke component="#this#" method="set#Local.property#"
cfinvokeargument value="#Arguments.properties['local.property']#"
/cfinvoke

Don't know if that will come through, but hope it helps. I know everyone is wiley about script these days, but I'm quite fond of the tags for reasons like these.
# Posted By Mike Kelp | 8/1/11 1:44 AM
Marco Betschart's Gravatar Hi Mark!

Glad to see you are exploring blade! :)

Unfortunately the evaluate-cry is the only one to achieve such dynamic method calls in cfscript. That's why I'm with Mike: There are a few things in cfscript which aren't possible yet, so generally I also prefer tags these days.

Nevertheless blade was my first "cfscript-only" outcome and since it's tend to act as "a new age rapid development framework" I had to investigate the cfscript possibilities in CF 9 :)

Hope you enjoy playing with blade and I would be happy about any response!
# Posted By Marco Betschart | 8/2/11 4:51 AM
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