Ben Nadel

Recent Blog Comments By Ben Nadel

• The mid() Function Can Safely Go Out-Of-Bounds And Gather Zero Characters In Lucee CFML 5.3.4.77

  Posted on Jun 2, 2020 at 5:44 AM

  @All, I was just poking around in Google, and I found a reference to an earlier blog post of mine (from 2007 :scream: ): https://www.bennadel.com/blog/585-calling-coldfusion-function-literals-like-you-do-in-javascript.htm In that post, Sean Corfield comments: You can't just p... read more »

• The 13th Annual Regular Expression Day - June 1st 2020

  Posted on Jun 1, 2020 at 11:59 AM

  @Matthew, A classic!... read more »

• Saving Temporary Form-Data To The SessionStorage API In Angular 9.1.9

  Posted on May 30, 2020 at 4:38 AM

  @All, I wanted to follow-up this post with another one on how something like the TemporaryStorageService could be made more dynamic: https://www.bennadel.com/blog/3836-using-abstract-classes-as-dependency-injection-tokens-with-providedin-semantics-in-angular-9-1-9.htm In this follow-u... read more »

• Uploading Files With HttpClient In Angular 7.2.11

  Posted on May 30, 2020 at 4:36 AM

  @Richard, Completely! It's just a matter of personal preference. I tend to be more wordy in all of my choices. Something always feels good (to me) about writing things out.... read more »

• Uploading Files With HttpClient In Angular 7.2.11

  Posted on May 30, 2020 at 4:36 AM

  @Michael, I know it's been a hot-minute since we last communicated; but, I finally got around to playing with storing temporary form-data so that it isn't lost upon refresh or back-button: https://www.bennadel.com/blog/3834-saving-temporary-form-data-to-the-sessionstorage-api-in-angular-... read more »

• Canonicalizing A URL By Its Individual Components In Lucee CFML 5.3.6.61

  Posted on May 26, 2020 at 6:26 PM

  @Brad, Yeah, in retrospect, it probably would been easier to use the java.net.URL class to get me started. With that, I could have at least had it get the protocol, path, and search string into addressable methods. I'd still have to further parse the search string into key-value pairs; b... read more »

• Saving Temporary Form-Data To The SessionStorage API In Angular 9.1.9

  Posted on May 26, 2020 at 2:58 PM

  @Hassam, I actually just saw Netanel's article in the ng-newsletter this morning. I am excited to read it after work to see what his approach is like. I gave it a cursory glance, and saw him using RxJS, which I don't use very much. Looking forward to it :D... read more »

• Can't Cast Object Type [Struct] To A Value Of Type [image] In Lucee CFML 5.3.4.77

  Posted on May 23, 2020 at 7:29 AM

  @Zac, Sooooo, unfortunately, when we log ColdFusion errors, we just extract all the lines that end in .cf[cm] so that our log entries aren't so large. As such, I can only see where the error happens in our application - not in the Lucee engine :( We get the root message (hence what I hav... read more »

• The canonicalize() Function Will Decode Strings That "Loosely Match" HTML Entities In Lucee CFML 5.3.5.92

  Posted on May 22, 2020 at 7:37 AM

  @All, Here's my attempt to break a URL apart, canonicalize and encode the individual components, and then join it back together: https://www.bennadel.com/blog/3832-canonicalizing-a-url-by-its-individual-components-in-lucee-cfml-5-3-6-61.htm I am not sure if I really have to canonicalize... read more »

• Playing With Recursive Ng-Template References In Angular 6.1.10

  Posted on May 20, 2020 at 8:13 AM

  @Sunil, @Ju, Very cool - glad you are finding this helpful. Though, I will admit that it's a bit tricky at first glance; I would suggest looking into recursive components instead of recursive templates . It's the same principles; but, with a little more intuitive model, I think. If yo... read more »

• Using Expando DOM Properties In Angular 9.1.6

  Posted on May 18, 2020 at 4:26 PM

  @Sourish, My pleasure. Personally, I try to err on the side of simplicity. I know a lot of people love the idea of compression and efficiency -- but, sometimes, you just can't beat the ease of use that JSON over the network gives you (especially for debuggin).... read more »

• Using Expando DOM Properties In Angular 9.1.6

  Posted on May 18, 2020 at 4:25 PM

  @All, As a follow-up to this post, I wanted to look at how we can use Expando properties in Angular to power some clean interactions with the IntersectionObserver API: https://www.bennadel.com/blog/3826-using-expando-dom-properties-to-power-the-intersectionobserver-api-in-angular-9-1-6... read more »

• Application Setting "useJavaAsRegexEngine" Tells CFML To Use Java's RegEx Engine For Built-In Re-Functions In Adobe ColdFusion 2018

  Posted on May 18, 2020 at 11:34 AM

  @Tyler, Great question! Yes and No. Yes in that the Adobe site appears to have a comparison of the Java and Perl pattern engines in their documentation . However, No , in that the list on the aforementioned docs doesn't appear to be valid. For example, the list in those docs mentio... read more »

• Application Setting "useJavaAsRegexEngine" Tells CFML To Use Java's RegEx Engine For Built-In Re-Functions In Adobe ColdFusion 2018

  Posted on May 18, 2020 at 7:23 AM

  @Zac, You guys are so fast. It's definitely a fascinating feature. It's not without it's issues; but, I suspect that anything that can be set globally to an application has some degree of trade-offs. Personally, I just love the Java RegEx engine!... read more »

• The canonicalize() Function Will Decode Strings That "Loosely Match" HTML Entities In Lucee CFML 5.3.5.92

  Posted on May 15, 2020 at 12:49 PM

  @James, Actually, if we can find a way to parse the URL on non-encoded & , then we can canonicalize + encode each URI component after it is split. That could get us around your case.... I think.... read more »

• The canonicalize() Function Will Decode Strings That "Loosely Match" HTML Entities In Lucee CFML 5.3.5.92

  Posted on May 15, 2020 at 12:46 PM

  @James, 100%. And, I've actually already run into a situation like that with our existing approach (not including the ideas outlined above). We have a workflow where we have to redirect users to a deep-link in a native app, which has something like sketch:// in the URL. But, the sanitiz... read more »

• Using CSS Overscroll-Behavior To Prevent Scrolling Of Parent Containers From Within Overflow Containers

  Posted on May 15, 2020 at 5:20 AM

  @Glib, Awesome, glad you found this helpful. I'm using this CSS property all the time now :D... read more »

• The canonicalize() Function Will Decode Strings That "Loosely Match" HTML Entities In Lucee CFML 5.3.5.92

  Posted on May 14, 2020 at 1:01 PM

  @Daemach, Yeah, that's the approach I'm currently exploring. I think it makes sense.... read more »

• The canonicalize() Function Will Decode Strings That "Loosely Match" HTML Entities In Lucee CFML 5.3.5.92

  Posted on May 14, 2020 at 9:17 AM

  @Dan, Ha ha, that's funny -- I was just chatting with David Epler on Slack, and he was suggesting that we try something exactly along those lines :D I'm meeting with him later today to discuss in more depth.... read more »

• The canonicalize() Function Will Decode Strings That "Loosely Match" HTML Entities In Lucee CFML 5.3.5.92

  Posted on May 14, 2020 at 8:05 AM

  @Dan, Yeah, basically we're trying to perform a "redirect" after a user logs-in. So, the "login page" receives the redirect URL as a parameter, which is then attempts to sanitize before consuming. So, yeah, we may just have to use a slightly more targeted approach to sa... read more »