Portable Data Types in Web Services

2004-05-20 Thread Rick Root
Since Flash doesn't understand query objects, I often find myself returning an array of structures (using the QueryToArrayOfStructures() function that I found on cflib)... it works well with Flash but not with other platforms... like VB doesn't know what a structure is. What are my

RE: Portable Data Types in Web Services

2004-05-20 Thread Dave Watts
I heard someone mention passing using a CFC data type but I don't really know what that means.. I must've missed that session at MAX last year :) You can define a custom data type using a CFC with nothing but CFPROPERTY tags. You can then specify that CFC as your RETURNTYPE attribute value.

Re: Portable Data Types in Web Services

2004-05-20 Thread Dick Applebaum
Rick You could use the concept of a thinArray to represent a CF query or array and publish taht via a web service. This web service could be easily consumed and manipulated as a query by any client programming language that has split/join functions. AFAIK, this includes _javascript_ Flash