CFINVOKE and its argumentcollection attribute

[BYJ_wntrsnt]

I'm passing a structure into a cfc using cfinvoke. I use argumentcollection
attribute of the cfinvoke to pass this structure to my cfc (I don't know any
other ways to do this, are there alternative?)
After doing some reading, I was able to pass my structure as explained in the
code below.
My question is: Since all the arguments are now of type string then within my
cfc I have no strcuture anymore, am I right?
If I still want to use a structure on my further coding I need to assemble a
structure again using all the arguments that were passed??????

<cfset var result = "">
<cfset var myStruct = structNew()>
<cfset myStruct["a"] = 1>
<cfset myStruct["b"] = 2>
<cfset myStruct["c"] = 3>

<cfinvoke argumentcollection="#myStruct#" component="Comp2"
method="handleArgCollection"
returnvariable="result" />

Within the cfc these are what I have:

<CFFUNCTION name="handleArgCollection">
<cfargument name="a" required="yes" type="string">
<cfargument name="b" required="yes" type="string">
<cfargument name="c" required="yes" type="string">

If I do something with myStruct, I got an error since myStruct is no longer
exist (?)
So if I want to work with these argument parameters as a strcuture within this
function do I have to re-create
a structure again using all those arguments???????


</CFFUNCTION>

[Ian Skinner]

Post by BYJ_wntrsnt
So if I want to work with these argument parameters as a strcuture within this
function do I have to re-create
a structure again using all those arguments???????

If you want a structure in your component's function, pass a structure.

<cfset myStruct = {foo="bar", george="gracie", ten="10">

<cfinvoke component="Comp2" funcStruct=myStruct
method="handleArgCollection" returnvariable="result">

<cffunction name="handleArgCollection">
<cfargument name="functStruct" requred="yes" type="struct">




The purpose of the argumentCollection property is the ability to treat
all the arguments of a function as a structure so that they can be
manipulated as such if that is desired by the developer.


<cfset myStruct = {foo="bar", george="gracie", ten="10">
<cfset arguments = {name="test" funcStruct=myStruct}

<cfinvoke component="Comp2" argumentcollection=arguments
method="handleArgCollection" returnvariable="result">

<cffunction name="handleArgCollection">
<cfarguments name="name" required="yes" type="string">
<cfargument name="functStruct" requred="yes" type="struct">