return ORMExecuteQuery(
	'FROM user U
	JOIN U.stateLicenses
	WHERE U.company.id IN (:companyIDs)'
	,
	{
		companyIDs = arguments.companyIDs
	},
	false,
	{ ignorecase = true }
);

Each user can have multiple state licenses, thus what we get back here is an array of array of entities that have duplicated users.

Lets take a couple of steps to fix this.

1. Change “JOIN U.stateLicenses” to “JOIN FETCH U.stateLicenses”. This will give us an array to work with instead of an array of an array. It also brings back the licenses right away. I didn’t investigate why this is though.
2. Add “SELECT DISTINCT U” to the beginning of the HQL. This will return distinct user records with an array of licenses. This fixes our duplicate users situation.

The modified working code is:

return ORMExecuteQuery(
	'SELECT DISTINCT U
	FROM user U
	JOIN FETCH U.stateLicenses
	WHERE U.company.id IN (:companyIDs)'
	,
	{
		companyIDs = arguments.companyIDs
	},
	false,
	{ ignorecase = true }
);

Because they are queued, something like this would return a variable not defined error:

variables.fw.service ( 'users.get', 'userRecord' );
variables.fw.service ( 'geographic.getStatesByCountry', 'states', { userID = userRecord.getUserID() );

So after spending some time reading through threads on Google Groups, I determined the old fashioned way is the best way. However there’s a nice feature if you have a bean service defined such as ColdSpring. This feature implicitly sets a property named the same as a defined bean in your XML configuration. For example:

component accessors = true {
  property usersService;

  function init ( FW ) {
    variables.fw = arguments.fw;
    return this;
  }

  void function default ( RC ) {
    RC.performerRecord = getUsersService().get ( ID = 1 );
    variables.fw.service ( 'geographic.getStatesByCountry', 'states', { userID = userRecord.getUserID() );
  }
}

You don’t need use the fw.service on the last call, but I left it in there … just because.

What happens is FW/1 will look to see if each property defined matches a bean definition. If found it automatically sets the property to the bean. Otherwise you’d normally put something like this into your init:

setUsersService ( application.beanfactory.getBean ( "users" ) );

An example service bean definition looks like this:

<bean id="geographic" class="geographicService" />

With the new FW/1 code, I tried calling a method in this service by using:

variables.fw.service ( 'geographic.getStatesByCountry', 'states' );

But ended up with this error:

Service ‘geographic.getStatesByCountry’ does not exist. To have the execution of this service be conditional based upon its existence, pass in a third parameter of ‘false’.

After hours of debugging, my team member finally found a solution; change the bean id from geographic to geographicService. Apparently FW/1 automatically appends “Service” to the bean ID it references so that it can cache services and controllers that way. This appears to be lacking in the FW/1 documentation, or at least clearly.

So the fix is:

<bean id="geographicService" class="geographicService" />

When generating ORM, it’s wise to monitor what SQL queries Hibernate is generating for you, both for performance and debugging reasons. (Wasn’t ORM supposed to make my life easier?).

To start logging ORM’s SQL set this property in your application.cfc:

<cfset this.ormsettings.logsql="true">

You’ll may notice however that the default configuration will not show DDL queries used for creating or updating tables nor will it show the parametrized values (just a ?).

To enable these things look at <cf_home>\lib\log4j.properties (in my case it’s C:\ColdFusion9\lib\log4j.properties).

To enable logging of parametrized values uncomment and change the value for log4j.logger.org.hibernate.type to look like this:

log4j.logger.org.hibernate.type=DEBUG

It seems like a little overkill on what this ends up returning because not only will it return your parametrized values but also what each column returns. I wish I could disable the latter.

To enable logging of exports and updates (DDL) uncomment and change the value for log4j.logger.org.hibernate.tool.hbm2ddl to look like this:

log4j.logger.org.hibernate.tool.hbm2ddl=DEBUG, HIBERNATECONSOLE

I placed an example snippet below. Thanks to Rupesh Kumar for providing this information.

IIS

After installing IIS 7 with defaults and turning on ISASPI filters, I noticed ColdFusion would not initialize. After reading through some notes be sure to turn on these options for IIS 7:

• .NET Extensibility
• ASP.NET
• CGI
• ISAPI Extensions
• ISAPI Filters

Web Root

I noticed when installing ColdFusion, the option for where the web root is located has been removed. It’s kind of complicated, so I’ll give you an example of how I changed mine to c:\wwwroot.

1. I pointed my default IIS site to c:\wwwroot. This is probably not necessary as long as you have another site setup with virtual directory for /CFIDE (C:\wwwroot\CFIDE) and /jakarta (C:\ColdFusion10\config\wsconfig\1). Notice the new jakarta requirement in addition to the standard CFIDE alias.
2. Copy (or perhaps move) the contents of “C:\ColdFusion10\cfusion\wwwroot” to “C:\wwwroot”. This should include the folders CFIDE and WEB-INF.
3. Edit the file “C:\ColdFusion10\cfusion\runtime\conf\server.xml”
4. Copy the “<Context…” open and close element that is currently commented out to the next line uncommented.
5. You will need to change the docBase to your new webroot, the WorkDir to the absolute path, and the aliases for CFIDE and WEB-INF. Why the aliases are needed in both IIS and this config you’ve got me. But if you leave them out you’ll end up with an error from Apache. Not sure what this is about yet.
   <Context path=”/” docBase=”C:\wwwroot” WorkDir=”C:\ColdFusion10\cfusion\runtime\conf\Catalina\localhost\tmp” aliases=”/CFIDE=C:\wwwroot\CFIDE,/WEB-INF=C:\wwwroot\WEB-INF” ></Context>
6. Restart your ColdFusion server service.

ColdFusion Builder 2.0.1 Beta

After I installed ColdFusion Builder 2.0.1 Beta (running as Administrator), I attempted to add the server to the server view. However I ran into the issue where only ColdFusion version 9 was available. After a post to the discussion groups I learned:

• The Application Server setting should be “CF+Tomcat Bundle” instead of Jrun.

I still have a lot of playing around to do with this combination, but I hope this helps a few of you out in the mean time.

HTML Example Code:

<div class="control-group">
<input type="checkbox" class="selAllChksInGroup"> All
<input type="checkbox" value="NE"> Nebraska
<input type="checkbox" value="FL"> Florida
</div>

JavaScript Code:

$(document).ready(function(){

$("input[type=checkbox].selAllChksInGroup").on("click.chkAll", function( event ){
    $(this).parents('.control-group:eq(0)').find(':checkbox').prop('checked', this.checked);
});

});

Microsoft’s rules for .NET Framework 1.1 Abbreviations consist of:

• Do not use abbreviations or contractions as parts of identifier names. For example, use GetWindow instead of GetWin.
• Do not use acronyms that are not generally accepted in the computing field.
• Where appropriate, use well-known acronyms to replace lengthy phrase names. For example, use UI for User Interface and OLAP for On-line Analytical Processing.
• When using acronyms, use Pascal case or camel case for acronyms more than two characters long. For example, use HtmlButton or htmlButton. However, you should capitalize acronyms that consist of only two characters, such as System.IO instead of System.Io.
• Do not use abbreviations in identifiers or parameter names. If you must use abbreviations, use camel case for abbreviations that consist of more than two characters, even if this contradicts the standard abbreviation of the word.

These appear to be good guidelines to follow for ColdFusion as well. I was going after casing for two letter acronyms in this case.

REF: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/141e06ef(v=vs.71).aspx

Syntax is:

 for(item in array) {
doSomething(item);
}

Recently I have started learning and developing with ORM. Because of this, I need to figure out what ORM is asking the SQL server to make sure it’s not doing anything crazy.

To do this I turned on logsql in ormSettings config in application.cfc. Then found that it would log to a file or the Console view.

But alas, nothing showed in my Console view, and yep, I did have a server configured in the Servers view.

So I find out that I need to stop/start the server in the servers view to get this working. After trying that it pretty much lied to me and said it did when it really didn’t.

At that point I stopped the service in the Windows service and tried to start from ColdFusion Builder. No such luck.

Then I tried restarting ColdFusion Builder w/ Administrator rights. BAM – now I can get the CF service started.

But I notice something interesting. The service in the Windows Service Manager still shows stopped after a refresh. But alas my Console works perfectly.

So I have no idea what is going on, but this is what I figure needs to happen to get this all working correctly:

1. Change the ColdFusion 9 Application Server properties of startup type to manual and stop the service.
2. Close ColdFusion Builder if already open and start it as Administrator (right click icon and select Run As Administrator)
3. In the Servers View in ColdFusion Builder, edit your server config and auto start and stop the CF Server. (optional but recommended… If you close CF Builder, you will need to restart the server anyway)
4. Select your server and click the green run arrow.
5. You should see ColdFusion startup with a bunch of output in the Console at this point.

What a mess! Needs to be a slicker way of getting this rolling without an hour of research and messing with Administrator rights. But hope this helps my memory and anyone else scratching their head!