I hadn't extended it to the page context, but I do something similar for my customer object. I have a structure called 'contextInfo' that is sort of a dumping grounds for any information that applies to the customer for a page or two only. Extending the idea to the page context would seem like a good idea to me.
-- jon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Thursday, January 2, 2003, 12:27:28 PM, you wrote: JH> Ok, this might sound weird, but I'm thinking of building something I'd JH> call a page-context. JH> The idea is that on certain pages one needs to have a lot a variables JH> that you load once, from a database or file and then use pretty often. JH> You can manually cache these variables in the application scope, but I JH> was looking for something more specific. An example of such data might JH> be: a default sort order, l10n texts etc. JH> So this would work like a normal client or session variable, but these JH> variables would be unique for each page (haven't though about includes JH> yet, but they may have their own page context too). I'm working on a JH> simple system that stores these variables in-memory in either the JH> application or the server scope, but I'd rather not use any of those. JH> Another option would be to create a java object that can be referenced JH> statically to get to these variables (haven't worked that out either). JH> Then appart from the default page data there might be user specific paga JH> date like the users preferred sort order, last 10 entered search JH> keywords etc. One could store these in the clientscope or the session JH> scope, but then these would be accessible from any other page aswell. So JH> in this case there would be a pageSession and a pageClient scope to JH> handle these kinds of data. JH> I haven't worked out the details yet, but I'm open for any ideas, pros, JH> cons etc. JH> Jesse JH> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm
