Thanks Gary, I totally read the question the wrong way. Looking back, before you do the CFRETURN, you should probably be checking that there is a foriegn key to return. If there isn't, throw a meaningful error message with CFTHROW, and catch that instead of trying to deal with the generic message CF throws for you.
I do this for business objects. Everything CFC has a getId() method (inherited), which returns the primary key of the main record persisting the object's data. If an object is initialized as new (unpersisted), after it has been deleted, or initialized with a non-existant ID, calling getId() throws an exception, which I catch and react accordingly (usually with an "invalid ID specified" message). cheers, barneyb --- Barney Boisvert, Senior Development Engineer AudienceCentral [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice : 360.756.8080 x12 fax : 360.647.5351 www.audiencecentral.com > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Gary Menzel > Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 3:41 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [CFCDev] Argument Type Error > > > > You should be checking that whatever you're passing to the function is > valid > > before you pass it (likely using isNumeric()). The error is generated > to > > make sure execution doens't proceed, not to help you catch validation > > errors. > > Or returning.... > > If you can't ensure the type then return ANY instead of NUMERIC. As > Barney said, you really shouldn't use exception handling for data > validation (but you can). The "validation" is actually already happening > and giving you a runtime error (because you told it the value must be > numeric). Therefore, there is either something wrong with the value or > something wrong with saying it should be NUMERIC. > > Make sense? > > Gary Menzel > IT Operations Brisbane -+- ABN AMRO Morgans Limited > Level 29, 123 Eagle Street BRISBANE QLD 4000 > PH: 07 333 44 828 FX: 07 3834 0828 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 07/22/2003 06:44:57 AM: > > > You should be checking that whatever you're passing to the function is > valid > > before you pass it (likely using isNumeric()). The error is generated > to > > make sure execution doens't proceed, not to help you catch validation > > errors. > > > > That being said, you could wrap the method call with a CFTRY block, but > > you'd have to do it for _every_ call, which would be very messy > at best. > Or > > you could use a global exception handler and redirect to an error page, > but > > that'd be fairly useless except to hide the specifics of the problem > from > > the user. > > > > barneyb > > > > --- > > Barney Boisvert, Senior Development Engineer > > AudienceCentral > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > voice : 360.756.8080 x12 > > fax : 360.647.5351 > > > > www.audiencecentral.com > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Behalf Of Justin Balog > > > Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 12:45 PM > > > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > > > Subject: [CFCDev] Argument Type Error > > > > > > > > > > > > Is there a way to catch an "Argument Type Error"? This is the > > > error that I > > > get--- > > > > > > The value returned from function > getcClerkBusinessOwnershipTypeFK() is > not > > > of type numeric. > > > > > > Here is the function: > > > > > > <CFFUNCTION access="private" name="getcClerkBusinessOwnershipTypeFK" > > > returntype="numeric" output="false" displayname="Get Business > > > Ownership Type > > > Method" hint="I Get the Business Ownership Types of the account"> > > > <CFRETURN instance.cClerkBusinessOwnershipTypeFK> > > > </CFFUNCTION> > > > > > > Here is the call to the function: > > > > > > myResultStruct.cClerkBusinessOwnershipTypeFK = > > > getcClerkBusinessOwnershipTypeFK(); > > > > > > I was just curious where I should put my error handling > > > (Try/Catch) in order > > > to capture the error that occurs? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Justin > > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > > You are subscribed to cfcdev. 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