How can I supply an empty criteria for cfsearch?

Question

I am using cf search (or rather the script based alternative in Railo) to do a basic keyword search, but I am getting an error when no criteria is entered.

What I would rather like to get back is an empty query object. Is this possible?

I can do checks on the string length etc using len(), but that would mean I never get the query object returned, which is what I would like.

Am I missing something here?

Thanks, Mikey.

Answer 1

As Peter said, as simple as:

<cftry>
    <cfsearch attributes>
<cfcatch type="application">
    <cfset MyQuery = QueryNew('column1','column2','column3')>
</cfcatch>
</cftry>

OR

<cfif len( attributes.searchCriteria )>
    <cfsearch attributes>
<cfelse>
    <!--- return blank query object --->
</cfif>