Posted At : November 24, 2008 4:33 PM | Posted By : Bob Silverberg
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Transfer,ColdFusion,Coldspring,OO Design,How I Use Transfer
I left something critical out of my last post about how I'm using Transfer (an ORM for ColdFusion) these days.
If you've been following along you'll know that I'm using an Abstract Transfer Decorator, which all of my concrete decorators extend, and that I'm using Brian Kotek's most excellent Bean Injector to load singletons into my Transfer objects. This raises an interesting issue: How to inject the appropriate Gateway Object into my Transfer Object.
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Posted At : May 21, 2008 8:25 AM | Posted By : Bob Silverberg
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ColdFusion,Coldspring,Transfer
Paul Marcotte wrote a blog entry describing how to automatically set a CreatedDate and ModifiedDate in your Transfer Objects when they are saved to the database. It is very well written and provides a great description of the problem, how Transfer observers work, and a solution.
I have used Transfer observers in a different manner, so I added a comment with a brief description to the blog entry. Dan Wilson suggested that it was too bad that such useful information was buried in a blog comment, so I decided to post it here as well. For the background, please check out Paul's entry.
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Posted At : July 12, 2007 10:44 AM | Posted By : Bob Silverberg
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ColdFusion,Coldspring,Transfer
I have different datasource names on my local machine, in my dev environment and in my production environment, and I wanted to figure out a way to automagically tell transfer which datasource to use based on the server it's running on. I couldn't find any programmatic way of doing this with Transfer, as it seems to require a datasource.xml file.
I decided to blog my solution, as it may be useful to others, or perhaps someone will point out a much better way to do it.
Here's what I'm doing:
I create 3 separate xml files, datasource_localhost.xml, datasource_dev.xml and datasource_prod.xml. Each one contains the name of the appropriate datasource.
In my Coldspring.xml file, where I define the Transfer bean, I use this code:
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