You understood me perfectly. Based on that information, the best thing to do is to create a second getter that accepts a position, like you said. I know this situation must come up all the time, just wanted to see what some accepted practices were.
Thanks Matt! -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Matt Woodward Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 1:05 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: CFC Bean Getter I think the tricky part is accessing a specific array element on the same line of code because of the notation that would be involved: <cfreturn getSomeArray()[1] /> That doesn't really fly. A getter can certainly return an array (a getter can return ANY type of object and can even return arrays of objects specifically by using myObject[] as your return type), but typically you would set that to a variable and then access the element you need. If you have to do this frequently you might add another getter to your bean that would allow you to get a specific element so you could return the element directly (at which point you're not returning an array but rather whatever type of data is in that element of the array), but both because I haven't determined a way around it and also in a lot of cases to make the code more clear, when a getter returns an array and I need to get at specific elements I usually set the array to a variable and then use array notation on the variable. Let me know if that doesn't make sense or if I'm misunderstanding your specific situation. Matt On Apr 11, 2005 12:57 PM, Daniel Elmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Calling Matt Woodward... > > If a getter() returns an array, how do you access a position in that array > in the same line of execution? > > <cfreturn getSomeArray()/> and I want to return the 1st cell only. > > Am I breaking bean rules? Can a getter not return an array? > > Thanks! > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > To post, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe: > http://www.dfwcfug.org/form_MemberUnsubscribe.cfm > To subscribe: > http://www.dfwcfug.org/form_MemberRegistration.cfm > > -- Matt Woodward [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mattwoodward.com ---------------------------------------------------------- To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://www.dfwcfug.org/form_MemberUnsubscribe.cfm To subscribe: http://www.dfwcfug.org/form_MemberRegistration.cfm ---------------------------------------------------------- To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://www.dfwcfug.org/form_MemberUnsubscribe.cfm To subscribe: http://www.dfwcfug.org/form_MemberRegistration.cfm
