I gave you a perfectly viable, easy to implement solution.
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 1:55 PM, enigment <enigm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Imagine an SES URL processor somewhat analogous to what Django > provides, with a regex match that captures specific segments of the > incoming URL and passes them to the requested method. Yes I know about > ColdCourse, and the related ColdBox plugin etc, I was just thinking > about alternate approaches. > > So yes, maybe it's unusual, but not irrational, or due to lack of > structure in my code. > > Please, can we not debate my motivation any more? If there are any > actual answers to the original question, I'd be interested in hearing > them, but frankly I doubt it. I've been doing CF for quite a while, > and didn't know of one, so I thought I'd ask around, but this keeps > focusing on "larger issues". That's a Good Thing in many cases, but > actually not here. I'm asking if there's a language feature I'm not > aware of to accomplish this, nothing more. > > Dave > > > On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Michael Grant <mgr...@modus.bz> wrote: > > > > It's also pretty unusual to not have any idea how many arguments you are > > passing into a method. There are many more elegant approaches to your > switch > > suggestion. The primary one being writing code that has structure and > passes > > in the expected amount of arguments each time. Another one would be that > > since you know how many arguments you are expecting in the method perhaps > > write a function to loop over and pad your array with null values if they > > aren't defined. Then your call to the method can always pass in the > expected > > amount of arguments. > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 1:13 PM, enigment <enigm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> > >> It's unusual for a method to take an array of its arguments, rather > >> than individual ones. Situation is something like a dispatcher; the > >> methods already have defined arguments, say Widgets.search(widgetName, > >> widgetCategory, widgetID). It'd be pretty weird for it to take an > >> array containing those three arguments. The layer I'm talking about > >> wants to call that, but only has an array of argument values, in > >> order. > >> > >> Not to be cranky, but while there's room for debate on why I want to > >> do this, this isn't that conversation. If there's no more elegant > >> approach than the switch strategy I mentioned, I'll probably ditch > >> this entire route. I first wanted to check if anyone could think of a > >> way to accomplish this in the CFML language, out of curiosity and to > >> maybe learn something that might be useful some day, as well to get it > >> done -- there's lots of smart and experienced folks out there. I > >> didn't mean to discuss whether it's worth doing. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Dave > >> > >> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Michael Grant <mgr...@modus.bz> wrote: > >> > > >> > Dave, > >> > > >> > Why don't you just pass in the array? > >> > > >> > <cfset positionalArgs = ['foo', 'bar', 42] /> > >> > <cfset myFunction(positionalArgs) /> > >> > <cffunction name="myFunction"> > >> > <cfargument name="positionalArgs" type="array"> > >> > <cfloop from="1" to="#arraylen(positionalArgs)#" index="x"> > >> > <cfdump var="#x#: #positionalArgs[x]#"><br /> > >> > </cfloop> > >> > </cffunction> > >> > > >> > > >> > On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 12:38 PM, enigment <enigm...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > > >> >> > >> >> @Michael: What I'm looking for is the positional equivalent of > >> >> argumentCollection. If it wasn't for that, you'd think the same about > >> >> passing a structure of arguments -- any object you pass will be > >> >> treated as a single argument. But argumentCollection trumps that. I > >> >> even tried a structure with keys 1, 2, 3, and passing that as > >> >> argumentCollection (unnamed arguments appear inside the function as > 1, > >> >> 2, and 3 if you dump arguments), no joy. > >> >> > >> >> @Jason: Clearly, calling a method three times, each time with one > >> >> argument, is very different than calling it once with all three. Say > >> >> they're search fields, lastName, FirstName, ZIP; you want the search > >> >> to run with all three of them in place, not separately for each one. > >> >> (Not sure why you went with an iterator rather than just indexing > over > >> >> the array, but it doesn't matter, not what I need to do.) > >> >> > >> >> Thanks for the ideas though. This just may not be possible. > >> >> > >> >> Dav > >> > >> > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:337915 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
