Just make everything required on your web service facades. If you need to have a set of runtime-defined parameters, use a struct to pass them as a single required argument.
cheers, barneyb On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 14:16:03 -0700, Nolan Erck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A co-worker just found the following documentation (i'm not sure where exactly): > > 6. Watch Optional Arguments > If you plan to expose your CFCs as web services, be careful with optional arguments. > The Apache Axis 1.1 web services engine used by ColdFusion MX 6.1 does not support > optional input arguments. If your CFC methods contain optional arguments, the > required attribute setting is ignored, and the argument is treated as required. > Here's an example: > <cfcomponent> > <cffunction name="getMessage" access="remote" returntype="string" output="no"> > <cfargument name="name" type="string" required="no" default="Stinky"> > <cfreturn "Hello " & arguments.name &"! " & "I've been invoked as a web > service."> > </cffuntion> > </cfcomponent> > In this case, even though name is an optional argument as far as the CFC is > concerned, it is required when you expose it as a web service. If you try to call > the component method as a web service and don't provide a name argument, ColdFusion > throws an error. > -------------------------- > that sounds like either a fairly big bug to me, or something we can easily work > around with a particular coding style that we're just not using here (yet). Has > anyone else experienced this? Any insight on preferred ways to deal with it? > > Thanks, > Nolan -- Barney Boisvert [EMAIL PROTECTED] 360.319.6145 http://www.barneyb.com I currently have 4 GMail invites for the taking ---------------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words 'unsubscribe cfcdev' in the message of the email. CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported by Mindtool, Corporation (www.mindtool.com). An archive of the CFCDev list is available at www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
