How about a method in all your CFCs called 'copy' (perhaps in a generic base cfc that they all inherit from):
<cffunction name="copy" access="public"> <cfreturn this> </cffunction> I'm quite sure that doesn't return a pointer (no time to test the theory but I'm sure someone could verify that). Regards, Dominic On 29/10/2007, Ryan Heldt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Greetings all- > > I realize this topic may have been covered on this list a while back, but > I'm having problems locating a good answer, so here goes. Typically in our > administrative web sites, on a request, we copy over our session variables > to the request scope so we can have read-access to the information without > having to place locks all over the place. Now that we're doing more OO > stuff, I would like the ability to persist an object in the session scope > while a user is signed in, and then copy it over to request for the same > purpose. As you know, <cfset session.object = request.object /> only > creates > a pointer to original, and duplicate() doesn't work on CFCs (we're using > CFMX 7). Anyone have a workaround or best-practice solution for this type > of > thing? > > -- > Ryan Heldt > Senior Web Developer > Global Reach Internet Productions > http://www.globalreach.com > Phone: 515-296-0792, Fax: 515-296-3748 > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Download the latest ColdFusion 8 utilities including Report Builder, plug-ins for Eclipse and Dreamweaver updates. http;//www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs%5adobecf8%5Fbeta Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:292248 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
