How can I place a CFDUMP (or similar) within an <else> tag

Question

Background

I'm currently writing my own (retrospective) line by line debugger for cold fusion because the existing line by line debuggers don't work for our version of cold fusion with our version of Eclipse. I have (for tag format at least) got this pretty much working. It functions simply by having a java program instrumente each (valid) line with <CFDUMP var='LINENUMBER' output='D:/retrospectiveData.txt'> and then the same program interprets this output file to show a nice line by line progress through the program (even though its after the fact)

The problem

While the vast majority of tags behave such that if the tag before them is executed they are as well <cfelse> and <cfelseif> don't work this way. This means that those lines can be incorrectly shown in my debugger as being run. For example consider the following instrumented program

<CFDUMP var='1' output='D:/retrospectiveData.txt'><cfif 1=1>
<CFDUMP var='2' output='D:/retrospectiveData.txt'>     <!--- something --->
<CFDUMP var='3' output='D:/retrospectiveData.txt'><cfelseif 1=1>
<CFDUMP var='4' output='D:/retrospectiveData.txt'>     <!--- something2 --->
<CFDUMP var='5' output='D:/retrospectiveData.txt'></cfif>

The <cfelseif 1=1> will be marked as being executed when in fact it never was. Given that it evaluates to true this will make it confusing that <!--- something2 ---> never runs

The question

Is there any way to have a text file output when an or tag is executed (whether it evaluates to true or false). I know I can't simply stuff an extra tag inside the <cfelseif 1=1>.

Answer 1

Is there any way to have a text file output when an or tag is executed

Not with CFML, no.

I think your approach is fundamentally flawed - as you're finding out - because just because code execution reaches a "physical" line of code, does not mean the line of code will be executed. You might have more luck if you put the debug output at the END of the line, not the beginning (that way it'll be "inside" logic blocks, not before them. This will probably raise issues of its own though.

Can you not use the line debugger in ColdFusion Builder, instead of trying to hack together your own one?