Cheers Andy -
That's fine if I want to check the struct exists, but I'm trying to directly
test against the value of that path (which in this case is a boolean)...?
T
On 14 June 2010 15:25, Andy Matthews <li...@commadelimited.com> wrote:
>
> When working with structures nested that deeply you might consider
> IsDefined
> instead.
>
> <cfif IsDefined('session.currentUser.permissions.' & arguments.path)>
>
> It's not a best practice necessarily, but it would prevent a whole bunch of
> StructKeyExists calls.
>
>
> andy
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom King [mailto:mailingli...@oxalto.co.uk]
> Sent: Monday, June 14, 2010 9:20 AM
> To: cf-talk
> Subject: Finding the value of a key in a nested structure
>
>
> Ok, my brain is hurting - I know this should be possible, but I can't quite
> get the syntax.
>
> I need to pass a string (a path to a structure which contains a boolean in
> the session scope) into a function, which then checks the value:
>
> i.e
>
> <cfif checkPermission("email.send.all")>
> Show a form or page
> </cfif>
>
> <cffunction name="checkPermission">
> <cfargument name="path">
> <cfif session.currentUser.permissions['#arguments.path#']>
> <cfreturn true>
> <cfelse>
> <cfreturn false>
> </cfif>
> </cffunction>
>
> So in this instance, CF is looking for
> session.currentUser.permissions['email.send.all'] - i.e a structure key
> name
> of 'email.send.all' , rather than
> "session.currentUser.permissions.email.send.all"
>
> Is there an elegant solution to this problem?
>
> Ta
> T
>
>
>
>
>
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