Your goal is basically for true interop for any app to consume it regardless of the code.
What we did is create an API which acts as a wrapper to a bank of CFCs, it take an defined/published XML input to call things like search, stats, CMS functions and it returns back structured XML as the result. The API converts and and all simple and complex ColdFusion object into XML automatically using a util CFC, so we never have to worry about ever exposing a CFC directly or worry about converting objects.. It's all automagical! "This e-mail is from Reed Exhibitions (Gateway House, 28 The Quadrant, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 1DN, United Kingdom), a division of Reed Business, Registered in England, Number 678540. It contains information which is confidential and may also be privileged. It is for the exclusive use of the intended recipient(s). If you are not the intended recipient(s) please note that any form of distribution, copying or use of this communication or the information in it is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error please return it to the sender or call our switchboard on +44 (0) 20 89107910. The opinions expressed within this communication are not necessarily those expressed by Reed Exhibitions." Visit our website at http://www.reedexpo.com -----Original Message----- From: Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX) To: CF-Talk Sent: Fri Mar 02 20:45:32 2007 Subject: Re: Create a webservice that returns a structure, to be consumed by .NET Your best bet here is simply to use XML, it is what it was designed for..true interop. It is a simple process to convert a struct to an XML doc. "This e-mail is from Reed Exhibitions (Gateway House, 28 The Quadrant, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 1DN, United Kingdom), a division of Reed Business, Registered in England, Number 678540. It contains information which is confidential and may also be privileged. It is for the exclusive use of the intended recipient(s). If you are not the intended recipient(s) please note that any form of distribution, copying or use of this communication or the information in it is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error please return it to the sender or call our switchboard on +44 (0) 20 89107910. The opinions expressed within this communication are not necessarily those expressed by Reed Exhibitions." Visit our website at http://www.reedexpo.com -----Original Message----- From: Ben Mueller To: CF-Talk Sent: Fri Mar 02 19:31:25 2007 Subject: Re: Create a webservice that returns a structure, to be consumed by ...NET Rick, Thank you so much for the reply. You may have just saved me from a week of banging my head against my desk. So, a question: when you convert the structure to an array, does that mean that the caller then needs to know which return variable is in each position of the array? So, they'd have to know that "errorcode" is array[1], and "errormessage" is array[2], and so on, right? If that's the case, then I probably don't want to go that route. Seems like too many chances for them to screw up (i.e. "I thought first name was array[5], not array[4]", and so on). I think I'll just serialize the data to a string. >BTW, here is an example of a function from the wrapper CFC code.... > > ><cffunction name="authByUsername" output="no" access="remote" >returntype="Array" displayname="authByUsername" > hint="Verify a username and password against DB2"> > <cfargument name="UNAME" type="string" required="yes"> > <cfargument name="PWORD" type="string" required="yes"> > <cfargument name="SPECIFICLOGINS" type="string" required="Yes"> > <cfargument name="SPECIFICGROUPS" type="string" required="Yes"> > <cfargument name="OTHER_RESTRICTIONS" type="string" required="no" >DEFAULT=""> > > > <cfset var authCFC = createObject("component","authorize")> > <CFSET var retVal = initRetVal(ArrayNew(1))> > <cfset var results = authCFC.authByUsername( > arguments.uname, > arguments.pword, > arguments.specificlogins, > arguments.specificgroups, > arguments.other_restrictions, > "ADVANCE/ER" > )> > > <cfif results.errorcode gt 0> > <cfset retVal[1] = results.errorCode> > <cfset retVal[2] = results.errorMessage> > <cfelse> > <cfset retVal[1] = 0> > <cfset retVal[2] = ""> > <CFSET retVal[3]= results.NAME> > <CFSET retVal[4] = results.title> > <CFSET retVal[5] = results.dept> > <CFSET retVal[6] = results.phone> > <CFSET retVal[7] = results.fax> > <CFSET retVal[8]= results.location> > <CFSET retVal[9] = results.dukebox> > <CFSET retVal[10] = results.lninitial> > > <CFSET retVal[15] = results.email> > <CFSET retVal[16] = results.userid> > <CFSET retVal[17] = results.SECURITY_GROUP> > <CFSET retVal[18] = results.MOVESFLAG1> > <CFSET retVal[19] = results.MOVESFLAG2> > <CFSET retVal[20] = results.FLASHCOOKIE> > <CFSET retVal[21] = results.ERUSERFLAG> > <CFSET retVal[22] = results.IMAGE_URL> > <CFSET retVal[23] = results.DROPRACEFLAG> > </cfif> > <CFRETURN retVal> > ></cffunction> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 The most significant release in over 10 years. 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