Comments on: HOWTO: Call CF from the command line

By: Ahamad

Ahamad — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:44:46 +0000

Hi,
I have posted a simple example on onMissingmethod here.

http://cf-examples.net/index.cfm/2008/8/25/onMissingMethod-Example

By: Javier Julio

Javier Julio — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:27:35 +0000

Unfortunately, it does not work. Sorry I have replied so late. I thought I had made my comment elsewhere. I meant to say “method” in the previous comment by the way instead of “message”.

I’ve set the onMissingMethod function to both remote and public but I’ll still get a CF error saying my method was not found.

Is it possible that this could be added in via an updater or maybe the next release of CF? It’s a great addition to be able to call CFC methods directly via the URL. I love this CURL example since everyone here at my job uses it to interact with the services we build.

By: Ashwin

Ashwin — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:26:24 +0000

Javier - if I remember right, onMissingMethod will work fine, just so long as you provide a method name to invoke via the ‘method’ attribute on the URL; a plain URL without a method attribute may fail. Try it and do let me know how it works out. Sorry I can’t provide a definitive answer - it’s been over 6 months since I last looked at the CF source code!

By: Javier Julio

Javier Julio — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:02:34 +0000

@Ashwin

I’ve set up a sample CFC to test out this feature and it works great. I’ve noticed that if an Application.cfm or Application.cfc (with onRequestStart) exists those files/functions are called. I was wondering then if onMissingMethod would fire if I did not type in a message in the query string?

By: Ashwin

Ashwin — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 04:05:50 +0000

Thanks again, Jeremy - I didn’t know that the escape character could be specified to sed.

By: Jeremy Rottman

Jeremy Rottman — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 17:29:49 +0000

Actually you can escape with any char you want to. It just has to be the first char trailing s.

However, with certain versions of sed on certain distro’s it truly only works with \

IE
callto=`echo $1 | sed `s*\.*/*g`

By: Ashwin

Ashwin — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 04:36:17 +0000

Thanks, Jeremy. I think the escaping with \ is a generic requirement - for some reason my blog editor stripped them out, and I didn’t notice. Fixed now.

By: Jeremy Rottman

Jeremy Rottman — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 19:36:27 +0000

Very cool topic, I have been asked this very thing quite a few times.

One thing to point out. Depending on your version of sed and your distro you may need to alter your sed command some.

For example, on centos 5.* running sed 4.1.5 you have you escape any special chars with \.

So your callto var would look something like this.

callto=`echo $1 | sed -e ’s/\./\//g’`

By: Build It Smarter

Build It Smarter — Thu, 31 May 2007 20:19:31 +0000

Calling CF from a command line?…

While looking over Ashwin Matthew’s ColdFusion blog posts, I caught this gem on calling CF from a command line interface (CLI). I have always wanted to use this exact feature but always presumed that it wasn’t possible. But now that……