I have a CFC file which handles all of the emails I'm sending form an application (using Coldfusion8).
I was using CFINVOKE to call the respective function inside this CFC and passed a struct with all user data along like so:
<cfscript>
var User.data = {};
User.data.name = "John Doe";
User.data.email = "[email protected]";
...
</cfscript>
// call mailer
<cfinvoke component="mailer_user" method="say_hi">
<cfinvokeargument name="userData" value="#User.data#">
</cfinvoke>
And inside my mailer.cfc
<cffunction name="say_hi" access="public" output="false">
<cfargument name="userData" type="struct" required="true" />
....
For some reason this now fails and I can only get it to work if I pass fields seperately as cfargument, which is a a pain, since I'm passing a lot of data.
Question: How can I get this to work using argumentCollection.
Even if I CFINVOKE like this:
<cfinvoke component="mailer_user" argumentcollection="#User.data#" method="say_hi"></cfinvoke>
it still doesn't do a thing. I'm setting output flags right before the cfinvoke and after, as well as inside the "say_hi" function going in and out. I'm only getting the flag before CFINVOKE.
Side note: This is all done through AJAX and I'm only getting back success="false" if my CFC has an error somewhere. I only work remotely on the system, so I can't set AJAX debugging in CFADMIN
As I typed the comment above it occurred to me what the problem is likely to be.
You are passing in a structure to your function. You pass User.data which has name,email,blah,etc as keys in that structure. Those keys need to match the arguments in your function
If you want to pass in the structure as a argument, you would need to have a user.userData as your structure of user data and your function should be
When you pass the collection as argumentCollection you should do argumentCollection="#user#", so that the userData part matches your cfargument in the function.
Clear as mud?