We are so excited to bring a major version release of our Mementifier Module. For those of you who do not know what Mementifier is, here is a small synopsis.

What is Mementifier?

This module will transform your business objects into native ColdFusion (CFML) data structures with :rocket speed. It will inject itself into ORM objects and/or business objects alike and give them a nice getMemento() function to transform their properties and relationships (state) into a consumable structure or array of structures. It can even detect ORM entities and you don't even have to write the default includes manually, it will auto-detect all properties. No more building transformations by hand! No more inconsistencies! No more repeating yourself! Best of all, it is lightning fast!

Defining Mementos

this.memento = {
	// An array of the properties/relationships to include by default
	defaultIncludes = [
		"firstName",
		"lastName",
		// Relationships
		"role.roleName",
		"role.roleID",
		"permissions",
		"children"
	],
	// An array of properties/relationships to exclude by default
	defaultExcludes = [],
	// An array of properties/relationships to NEVER include
	neverInclude = [ "password" ],
	// A struct of defaults for properties/relationships if they are null
	defaults = {
		"role" : {},
		"office" : {}
	},
	// A struct of mapping functions for properties/relationships that can transform them
	mappers = {}
}

Getting Mementos

struct function getMemento(
	includes="",
	excludes="",
	struct mappers={},
	struct defaults={},
	boolean ignoreDefaults=false
)

Release Notes

Here are the release notes for this major release:

Features

• Enabled wildcard default includes (*) to retrieve inherited object properties instead of doing wacky things for inherited defaults to work.
• New setting to chose a default value to expose when getters return null: nullDefaultValue
• ORM Auto includes now ONLY includes properties to avoid bi-directional recursive exceptions. This is also a compatiblity, where before EVERYTHING was included. Now, only properties are included.

Improvements

• Updated to cborm2 for testing harness
• Updated to TestBox 3

Compatibility

• Removed ACF 11 Support
• ORM Auto includes only marshalls properties instead of everything.