[jQuery] Re: Coldfusion: using $.get() to directly call a CFC living outside of the webroot
Andy, Ben Nadel has some information about calling CFCs outside the webroot,
without a mapping, on his blog. It may be of help to you. I think there is
still some mediation that happens but I don't think you have to use a
middle-man file.
-- Josh
- Original Message -
From: Andy Matthews
To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 11:16 AM
Subject: [jQuery] Coldfusion: using $.get() to directly call a CFC living
outside of the webroot
Right now m JS looks like this:
$.get(psychic.cfm, {method:idArr[0],key:idArr[1]}, function(data){
//do some stuff
});
psychic.cfm contains the following code:
cfset VARIABLES.ps = CreateObject(component,includes.salesman)
cfparam name=URL.method default=
cfparam name=URL.key default=
cfset func = VARIABLES.ps[URL.method]
cfoutput#func(URL.key)#/cfoutput
It's the only way that I can think of to call a CFC outside of my webroot. I
don't like having to do this as it requires a middle-man page. The upside is
that it works flawlessly.
I do have a mapping to the CFC directory (not the one above):
apps.cfcs.theCFCinQuestion
Is there any way to call against that CFC directly instead of having to use a
middle page?
Andy Matthews
Senior Coldfusion Developer
Office: 877.707.5467 x747
Direct: 615.627.9747
Fax: 615.467.6249
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[jQuery] Re: Coldfusion: using $.get() to directly call a CFC living outside of the webroot
Okay...I'll post this question to the cf-talk list as well.
_
From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Josh Nathanson
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 1:39 PM
To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com
Subject: [jQuery] Re: Coldfusion: using $.get() to directly call a CFC
living outside of the webroot
Andy, Ben Nadel has some information about calling CFCs outside the webroot,
without a mapping, on his blog. It may be of help to you. I think there is
still some mediation that happens but I don't think you have to use a
middle-man file.
-- Josh
- Original Message -
From: Andy Matthews mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 11:16 AM
Subject: [jQuery] Coldfusion: using $.get() to directly call a CFC living
outside of the webroot
Right now m JS looks like this:
$.get(psychic.cfm, {method:idArr[0],key:idArr[1]}, function(data){
//do some stuff
});
psychic.cfm contains the following code:
cfset VARIABLES.ps = CreateObject(component,includes.salesman)
cfparam name=URL.method default=
cfparam name=URL.key default=
cfset func = VARIABLES.ps[URL.method]
cfoutput#func(URL.key)#/cfoutput
It's the only way that I can think of to call a CFC outside of my webroot. I
don't like having to do this as it requires a middle-man page. The upside is
that it works flawlessly.
I do have a mapping to the CFC directory (not the one above):
apps.cfcs.theCFCinQuestion
Is there any way to call against that CFC directly instead of having to use
a middle page?
Andy Matthews
Senior Coldfusion Developer
Office: 877.707.5467 x747
Direct: 615.627.9747
Fax: 615.467.6249
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.dealerskins.com http://www.dealerskins.com/
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[jQuery] Re: Coldfusion: using $.get() to directly call a CFC living outside of the webroot
As an aside, Rob Gonda's AjaxCFC handles numbers 2 and 3 below nicely, and he's built a hook into jquery into the latest version. You can set the return type to JSON or WDDX, and it will report a nice error message for you if there's an error in your cfc. Not sure how that would tie in with the need for a facade, but it could probably be integrated. -- Josh - Original Message - From: Dan G. Switzer, II To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 12:12 PM Subject: [jQuery] Re: Coldfusion: using $.get() to directly call a CFC living outside of the webroot Andy, I actually prefer using a façade (which is you're doing) for a few reasons: 1) You're preventing direct access to the CFC. While I do use CFC for Webservices, the CFCs I expose are usually façades for an internal API with limited roles and access. 2) Calling a CFC directly returns the results as WDDX (at least in CF7 and earlier.) I prefer using JSON-because it's lighter weight. A simple data structure in WDDX can produce a pretty large data packet, where the same packet in JSON is considerable smaller. 3) I can build whatever additional error handling for the AJAX call into the façade. I mean, what happens if your CFC throws an error? I want to make sure that my AJAX calls now what do to if something funky happens. -Dan
