Matt, do you know of a good rundown on the difference between This and
Variables scope in a CFC? I have a basic understanding of it but it is
always been something I wanted to make sure I understood the fine
distinctions in, kind of like the difference between var scoped
variables and the local scope in CF9.
Cheers,
Judah
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Matt Quackenbush <quackfu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I don't think I am actually understanding the question at hand, but
> hopefully this will at least help you out.
>
> First of all, I would strongly discourage anyone from using the "this" scope
> of the CFC. There are a variety of reasons for that recommendation, but
> chief among them is the ability to access and change the instance data from
> outside of the object.
>
> Instead, you will want to use the "variables" scope, and have getX() and
> setX() methods to access/change the instance data.
>
> Now then, if you are wanting a struct representing the instance data, then
> you would create a getMemento() method to return that, which would look
> something like the following:
>
> public struct function getMemento()
> {
> // duplicate it so the internal data cannot be changed outside of the
> object
> return duplicate(variables);
> }
>
> These are just general guidelines and may/should change based upon your
> actual needs.
>
> HTH
>
>
>
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