Curt Gratz |
February
16,
2015
Looking to secure your ColdBox application? The Security Module can be your security rules engine for your application. It provides flexible options to rules based security for you to use.
We have often talked about how a module can be either complex or as simple as an interceptor. Our Security Module is basically just an interceptor that gets registered in your application to enforce rules you define. Installing it is easy u...
Nathaniel Francis |
February
13,
2015
As part of the core cleanup for ColdBox 4.0, the internationalization aspects (i18n) have been moved out into their own module. Up until ColdBox 4.0, i18n was a plugin, like messageBox, and Logger, and Validator. All of these plugins have been reworked into ColdBox 4.0 modules and are available on ForgeBox.
Without i18n being in the core, your smaller, focused applications that don't leverage i18n's features won't have i18n weighing down your server.
But, for the i18...
Brad Wood |
February
12,
2015
ColdBox's ORM services have always been a very compelling part of the framework for those using ORM in their applications. The provide you with an automatic, extendable service layer for an ORM entity complete with common methods, pagination and really sweet syntactical sugar such as dynamic finders:
user = userService.findByLastName("Majano");
users = userService.findAllByLastLoginBetween( "01/01/2014", "01/01/2015" );
count = userService.countByLastLoginGreaterThan( "01/01/2013" );
Luis Majano |
February
10,
2015
ColdBox 4 introduces yet more nifty tools for RESTFul web services. In ColdBox 4, we introduced the capability to do auto-marshaling of RESTFul body content from either JSON or XML formats. We will take care of the defaults, nulls and incompatibility requirements. All you have to do is use our event.getHTTPContent() method and pass the appropriate conversion argument.
The possible conversion boolean arguments are:
Curt Gratz |
February
09,
2015
You may be wondering where all that amazing debugging information went in your ColdBox 4.0 application. Have no fear. You can still have your cake and eat it too. We modularized it (sensing a theme in ColdBox 4.0 yet?) So, how do you get all that wonderful debugging info?
Easy! Using CommandBox, run the following command.
Nathaniel Francis |
February
06,
2015
For those who haven't yet dived into ColdBox 4.0, the obvious question is this: "Will ColdBox 4.0 work with my flavor of CFML?"
You may not have thought about CFML this way before. CFML is the language. The servers that interpret that language are the flavors.
ColdFusion (Adobe) is a flavor of CFML, also referred to as ...
Brad Wood |
February
05,
2015
The Asynchronous loggers in LogBox have been removed in preference to the new async property that can be used in any logger. The affected loggers are:
Scott Coldwell |
February
04,
2015
Have you ever looked at the folder structure of ColdBox and noticed that, grammatically speaking, model was the odd man out? No longer! With ColdBox 4.0, the model folder has been renamed to models for consistency.
To upgrade your application, there are two choices to make it compatible with this change:
Luis Majano |
February
03,
2015
ColdBox has sported RESTFul capabilities since the 3.0.0 days (that's since 2011). As each release matures, our RESTFul suite of tools mature as well. In our latest release we introduced a great way to intercept when RESTFul endpoints are called with invalid HTTP methods. Every ColdBox handler has the this.allowedMethods structure which can tell the framework what actions can be executed with what HTTP methods.
this.allowedMethods = {
index = "GET",
save = "PUT,POST",
remove = "DELETE"
}
Curt Gratz |
February
02,
2015
One of the biggest things we changed about ColdBox 4.0 is making tons of the core completely modular. To support this change, we needed to enhance our modules architecture which brought some cool new features to you.
Every time I talk about ColdBox modules with people, I get asked if modules can contain modules, which up to now wasn't an option. But the first Module Enhancement I'd like to bring to your attention is just that. We call it Module Inception. This will allow for even greater ways for you to build and architect your applications. Modules can be nested to the Nth degree. Creating a ton of options and flexibility for you the developer in how you organize your code.