I am interested here as well, as debugging coldfusion code is mostly involving <cfdump> tags in strategic places... Does the Eclipse plug-in give any more information than the CF Debugging output?
Hope this doesn't hi-jack the thread, speeves On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Richard White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > thanks for the reply Dan, although that is a problem i do have at present > and as you rightly said it is trying to a reference complex variable as a > simple variable > > although this actual issue is not my problem. my problem is finding the > offending code that has this issue. once i can find the offending piece of > code then i will be able to fix it. > > my problem is that i am using cfinvoke to invoke a method in one of my > cfc's. that cfc method uses lots of other methods to complete its work. but > when i use the cfinvoke the tag context in the resulting error stops at the > cfinvoke tag. so the only detail i get of the error is about the complex > variable trying to be treated as a simple value. but it has no reference as > to what function it is in or what line of code the offending error is > occuring. > > is there a way i can get it to show this? > > thanks > > richard > > >The problem is that you are trying to treat a complex object as a simple > >value. > > > >Take the following example. I am creating array that holds 2 values. If I > >were to dump it everything would be fine but If I tried to output it like > >below I would get the same error you are. > > > ><cfset skills = ArrayNew(1)> > ><cfset arrayAppend(skills,"ColdFusion")> > ><cfset arrayAppend(skills,"JavaScript")> > > > ><cfoutput>#skills#</cfoutput> > > > >This is because the compiler does not understand what you are trying to > do. > >If you want to see the string representation of this object you could > always > >use the toString() method. > > > ><cfoutput>#skills.toString()#</cfoutput> > > > >Hope this clears it up a little. > > > >Thank You > >Dan Vega > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >http://www.danvega.org > > > > > > > > > >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:312704 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
