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Introspecting Application.cfc

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I've gotten this question a bunch of times. How do you get information about what's enabled in your application scope? How do I know if ORM is enabled, or what the datasource is?

Pretty easy - Instantiate the Application scope, and then get that information from the This scope.

<cfset test= new Application() />
<cfdump var="#test.ormenabled#">

7 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Ryan Vikander

    Maybe I am wrong, but can't you just <cfdump var="#Application#">?

  • 2 Ryan Vikander

    Nevermind, after testing that doesn't work.

  • 3 Billy Cravens

    Since you have to create an object, I'd think you could
    <cfset test = new Application()>
    <cfdump var="#test#">

  • 4 Ben Nadel

    Nice! I never thought of actually creating a new instance of the CFC. Very cool idea! I always used some hacky approach like dumping out the secret properties of the application scope. Your way is much better!

  • 5 Ben Nadel

    Thanks Terry - I was enjoying this post again at lunch :)

  • 6 Terrence Ryan

    Thanks, Ben. I'm glad you liked it. It was one of those "It's so simple it can't work" moments.

  • 7 joe banken

    Thats pretty cool man, I also did not know you could do new Application(). Nice find.

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