BIG BIG Bug! Adobe needs to break out the flyswatter for sure on that one.

I get the impresson that application.cfc and CFC components may not play together that well for cf8 (my copy is standard). Hence, I'm a bit relunctant to change the application.cfm to application.cfc for one app which uses a handful of CFCs. I understand I may lose some efficiency...

Is Adobe all consumed with Flex and Air now?

Thks.

ok, Thank you, Ray. I'll remove my hesitation and move forward with application.cfc then.

Don

That code in APp.cfm would be equivalent to the same code in onRequest.

Well arguments.thePage is passed to onRequest automatically. It's the page being requested. So Sean's fix is to look at the value, and if it "something.cfc", to remove itself from the request.

The variable name is based on what you use in the cfargument tag. If you had cfargument name="myfreakingpage", it would be arguments.myfreakingpage.

Right - the argument names are up to you.

Ray, I am having a similar problem related to this topic. However, I'm not using the onRequest/onRequestStart and there is no application.cfc.

When I load my grid page, I get a popup with this error:

Error parsing JSON response: <wddxPacket version='1.0'><header/><data><struct><var name='TOTALROWCOUNT'><number>3.0</number></var><var name='QUERY'><recordset rowCount='1' fieldNames='ID,LOGINID,LOGINPW,LOGINNAME,LOGINLEVEL' type='coldfusion.sql.QueryTable'><field name='ID'><number>3.0</number></field><field name='LOGINID'><string>jaime</string></field><field name='LOGINPW'><string>xXxX</string></field><field name='LOGINNAME'><string>Jaime</string></field><field name='LOGINLEVEL'><string>Admin</string></field></recordset></var></struct></data></wddxPacket> [Enable debugging by adding 'cfdebug' to your URL parameters to see more information]

After clicking Ok, I get this popup:

CFGRID: Response is empty [Enable debugging by adding 'cfdebug' to your URL parameters to see more information]

Now, my dilemma is that I'm on a shared hosting environment and apparently the debugging is turned off. I've tried adding "?cfdebug" to the query string to no avail.

Now, if I perform a cfdump on the CFC using cfinvoke, I show this:

struct
QUERY    
query
   ID    LOGINID    LOGINLEVEL    LOGINNAME    LOGINPW
1    3    jaime    Admin    Jaime    XxXx
2    2    liz    Admin    Liz    XxXx
3    1    steve    Admin    Steve Fister    XxXx
4    [empty string]    [empty string]    [empty string]    [empty string]    [empty string]
5    [empty string]    [empty string]    [empty string]    [empty string]    [empty string]
TOTALROWCOUNT    3

I don't know if this is the problem, but it looks like there are two rows of empty strings and I have absolutely no idea where they are coming from! Checking the db table, there are indeed only 3 rows in the table.

Any ideas? Thanks!

Notice the XML. It is WDDX. How are you doing your binding? You want to ensure returnformat=json is in the url.

What does your response look like? Use Firebug to see what you are getting.

Check to ensure CF Debugging is turned off.

I know this seems insane, because I swear I've used this workaround before. But it's not working now.

I have a simple "Hello World"-type Flex page for testing. It calls a CFC which returns the string "Hello."

When the CFC resides underneath the following Application.cfc, there's an error because the OnRequest method still runs.

Naturally, when I completely comment out the OnRequest method, it works fine. The code in OnRequestStart just isn't deleting OnRequest, for some reason.

Here's the entire Appliation.cfc:

<cfcomponent >
   <cfset this.name = "fred" />
   
   <cffunction name="onRequestStart">
      <cfargument name = "targetPage" type="String" required="true" />
      <!--- ensure CFC / Web Service / Flex Remoting calls are not intercepted --->
      <cfif listlast(arguments.targetPage,".") is "cfc">
         <cfset StructDelete(this, "onRequest") />
         <cfset StructDelete(variables,"onRequest")/>
      </cfif>
   </cffunction>

   <cffunction name="onRequest">
      <cfargument name = "targetPage" type="String" required="true" />
      <cfinclude template = "#Arguments.targetPage#" />
   </cffunction>
   
</cfcomponent>

Thank you Ray, this was driving me insane!