Email Rob Gonda and see what he says about all this. He's the ultimate source on ajaxCFC anyway. If you get an answer to this, it'd be cool to hear about it.
Chris On 10/4/07, Brook Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks for the feecback Jack. I am using the success() method and within > that method I want to call a method on the current object. The reason is > because I have spawned multiple objects and they all fetch data via ajaxCFC > and I want the correct object to handle the result. > > > > I could save a reference in the global scope, but that would mean I could > only have one ajax call at a time. I just wish I could pass an object > through to the callback handler so that reference would be available in > success(). I guess I could pass a string reference to the class object to > the server and have it returned an evaluated – but there must be a better > way, no? > > > > BrookD > > > > ------------------------------ > size=2 width="100%" align=center tabindex=-1> > > *From:* jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On > Behalf Of *Jack Killpatrick > *Sent:* October 3, 2007 6:19 PM > *To:* jquery-en@googlegroups.com > *Subject:* [jQuery] Re: AjaxCFC > > > > Hmm, maybe create a global var to hold a ref to the scope? > > var currentObj; > > and in getData: > > currentObj = this; > ajax call > > and in dataResult: > > currentObj.someProperty = data.yadda; > currentObj = null; > > ? > > In case you don't know, the ajaxCFC also has a success callback: > > $.AjaxCFC({ > url: some.cfc, > method: 'doIt', > data: { yadda:'ya' }, > success: function(data){ > do some stuff; > } > }); > > I'm assuming you're calling the dataResult() function via the success > attribute, but just in case, FYI. It doesn't really change the approach to > knowing scope thing, though, AFAIK. If you try putting "this" inside the > anonymous function, it still won't know the calling object. > > - Jack > > Brook Davies wrote: > > Hello Jack, > > > > Well I want to get the scope of the calling object that the function > resides in. I have multiple instances of this object: > > > > someObj = { > > > > getData: function(){ > > > > //cfAjax request starts here > > > > } > > , > > > > dataResult: function(data){ > > // handle result from cfAjax here > > } > > > > } > > > > a = new someObj() > > b = new someObj() > > > > // call getData on 'a' instance > > a.getData(); > > > > This is where I want the cfAjax callback to be within the scope of the 'a' > object or at least somehow get a reference to 'a'. How do I do that? > > > > BrookD > > > > > > > -- http://cjordan.us
