Brad Wood

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

  Posted on May 26, 2020 at 1:07 PM

  Hi Ben, custom parsing of a URL can be handled much simpler with the java.net.URL class in the JDK. Here's a post I did on it years ago: http://wwvv.codersrevolution.com/blog/Fun-with-javanetURL... read more »

• Built-In Functions And Member-Methods Return Different Data Types In Lucee CFML 5.3.5.92

  Posted on Apr 16, 2020 at 10:53 AM

  Yes, member functions "fixed" the return value in most cases to be the original object which is 1000 times more useful for chaining calls. However, the docs were largely just copied (or in some cases shared) with the headless functions. Another issue I've run into is the error me... read more »

• Executing Command-Line Processes From A Working Directory Using ProcessBuilder In Lucee CFML 5.2.9.31

  Posted on Apr 14, 2020 at 10:42 AM

  I guess I should probably add an explicit .close() call once the .readLine() starts returning null. You know to be honest, I don't always know when you need to explicitly close streams, but I always do it just for good measure. The trick is, you always want to close them in a finally bloc... read more »

• Executing Command-Line Processes From A Working Directory Using ProcessBuilder In Lucee CFML 5.2.9.31

  Posted on Apr 13, 2020 at 11:55 AM

  I did a lot of Googling over the weekend for ProcessBuilder, and I didn't really find a lot of good information. It's funny how good examples of java docs can be a little hit and miss. And processbuilder has been part of the core JDK since at least Java 7! I've found that the API for pr... read more »

• Executing Command-Line Processes From A Working Directory Using ProcessBuilder In Lucee CFML 5.2.9.31

  Posted on Apr 12, 2020 at 8:31 PM

  Wow, cool idea to hand closures to the parallel each operation as a trick for running them in a thread. I've always just ran the waitFor() in the main thread and then used cfthread to read from the input stream (which is really the output!).... read more »

• Rediscovering My Love Of ColdFusion And CFML In 2020

  Posted on Apr 10, 2020 at 12:45 PM

  Fantastic list!... read more »

• Array.Sort() Operator Must Return INT-Sized Result In Lucee CFML 5.3.4.80

  Posted on Mar 26, 2020 at 12:33 PM

  Seemed worth ticketing: https://luceeserver.atlassian.net/browse/LDEV-2793 https://tracker.adobe.com/#/view/CF-4207690... read more »

• Array.Sort() Operator Must Return INT-Sized Result In Lucee CFML 5.3.4.80

  Posted on Mar 26, 2020 at 12:27 PM

  Same thing I replied with on Twitter: Right, so technically the docs request -1, 0 and 1 from the callback, not any positive or negative number. So while it's defo buggy, you're sort of bending the rules. This version of your code works fine: https://trycf.com/gist/3a15ed54bb5feaa99976f2d... read more »

• Exploring Tag Islands (Tags In CFScript) In Lucee CFML 5.3.1.13

  Posted on Feb 24, 2020 at 10:32 PM

  Funny, three of your main examples were sending mail, queries, and HTTP requests in script: There's a "box" for that :) https://www.forgebox.io/view/cbmailservices https://www.forgebox.io/view/qb https://www.forgebox.io/view/hyper... read more »

• Exploring The Triple Equals (===) Operator In Lucee CFML 5.3.4.77

  Posted on Feb 21, 2020 at 5:36 PM

  Yep, it's pretty frustrating that it was implemented in a confusing manner. I had a long discussion with Micha in Slack prior to entering that ticket 3 years ago and he disagreed with me at the time that there was anything wrong with Lucee's implementation. I'm like you, I literally see n... read more »

• Exploring The Triple Equals (===) Operator In Lucee CFML 5.3.4.77

  Posted on Feb 21, 2020 at 2:10 PM

  An update, I don't think your examples showing the number and string type comparisons are actually working the way you think. Like I said above, I believe they only return true in your tests because the Lucee compiler is smart enough to re-use the same object in memory behind the scenes. L... read more »

• Exploring The Triple Equals (===) Operator In Lucee CFML 5.3.4.77

  Posted on Feb 21, 2020 at 1:37 PM

  I actually hate how Lucee implemented === because they followed how Java works, not how JS works. In Lucee, the === operator is only checking to see if both operands are the same object on heap, not if they are the same type. I put this ticket years ago because I think most people misunder... read more »

• Wrapping The FusionReactor API (FRAPI) For Safe Consumption In Lucee CFML 5.2.9.40

  Posted on Jan 28, 2020 at 9:17 AM

  Nice post, the FRAPI does a heck of a lot of stuff and most people don't know about it. I've found the actual Java API to be pretty well built and I don't even feel like it needs a wrapper to be honest. That said, my FRAPI integration I did with CommandBox uses it and I did create a separat... read more »

• Strange MongoDB Error When Incrementing A Document Property In Lucee CFML 5.2.9.31

  Posted on Jan 14, 2020 at 4:17 PM

  The Lucee ticket tracker is located here: https://luceeserver.atlassian.net/ They use an on-demand JIRA instance and it's free and quick to sign up for an account. I would recommend keeping the ticket simple. Explain it will come in handy for anyone using MongoDB and include a very s... read more »

• Strange MongoDB Error When Incrementing A Document Property In Lucee CFML 5.2.9.31

  Posted on Jan 14, 2020 at 12:20 PM

  Ben, did you put in a ticket for this? I just had a similar ticket this week related to Lucee not properly being able to do a for in loop over a Java "Set" because it wasn't a Lucee Collection. Micha already fixed it just yesterday. Mongo seems common enough he may be able to mak... read more »

• Passing isArray() Decision Function Does Not Ensure Member Methods In Lucee CFML 5.3.3.62

  Posted on Jan 8, 2020 at 12:44 PM

  Oh, I totally forgot to add, my typical insurance against this sort of thing is to run them through a BIF as you suggested which will return a "real" CF object. Annoying, but generally effective so long as you don't need to go N-levels deep. myStruct = {}.append( myJavaHashMap ) ... read more »

• Passing isArray() Decision Function Does Not Ensure Member Methods In Lucee CFML 5.3.3.62

  Posted on Jan 8, 2020 at 12:40 PM

  In short, this was not a bug in Lucee CFML I would disagree here :) What you have described has been one of the biggest screw ups in member functions IMO. Adobe and Lucee both fell into this trap and it's drove me crazy the number of times it's bitten me. The issue is, people assume that... read more »

• Replacing ColdFusion Query-Of-Queries (QoQ) With Array Functions In Lucee CFML 5.2.9.31

  Posted on Nov 5, 2019 at 9:39 AM

  But, now that Lucee makes closures and fat-arrow syntax so easy To be fair, Adobe introduced fat arrows in 2018 update 5 and once the next Adobe updater comes out with some remaining fixes for it, it will actually work better than Lucee's fat arrows! The Adobe team was super responsive in ... read more »

• Replacing ColdFusion Query-Of-Queries (QoQ) With Array Functions In Lucee CFML 5.2.9.31

  Posted on Nov 5, 2019 at 8:39 AM

  Great post, Ben. i have always been a fan of QofQ's but I think you have to be careful of performance with large result sets, especially if you're applying a complex filter. The only really annoying thing QofQ lacked for me was an outer join. ColdBox has a cbCommons module which has utili... read more »

• ColdFusion Client For The Word-Finding Datamuse API

  Posted on Jul 25, 2018 at 8:49 PM

  No, the "new" keyword is nothing more than a shortcut for creating CFC instances. There is a generic way to call any tag in script, but that's a different thing entirely.... read more »