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" );
Nathaniel Francis |
February
11,
2015
One of the neat "under the hood" features of CommandBox is artifacts. Artifacts are a copy of each package that gets downloaded with CommandBox. This is good for you and for the internet because once you have a package in your artifacts, you don't need to download it again. Artifacts are key to CommandBox efficiency.
The next time you download a package from ForgeBox, CommandBox reads the box.json file for that package's dependencies. Then, it checks to see if we already have a copy of those dependencies in the artifacts. If the dependency is in the artifacts, CommandBox just uses it. If not, then CommandBox calls to ForgeBox to get that dependency. That's efficiency.
Curt Gratz |
February
11,
2015
Ever want to try something quick in CFML? Show something off and get the feedback instantly?
One of the things CommandBox can do for you is provide a REPL (Read-Evaluate-Print-Loop) console for immediate ColdFusion (CFML) interaction so you can do just that.
After CommandBox is installed, just run
box repl
Gavin Pickin |
February
10,
2015
Using a command line tool, like CommandBox, you look for those feature comforts, that can make or break the UI. With CommandBox, one of the big wins, is HELP. Most command line tools allow you to type help and get some general help, but CommandBox goes a step further, you can get Help the Global Level, Namespace Help, and even help at the Command Level.
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:
Brad Wood |
February
09,
2015
We have big plans for using CommandBox to install packages from all sorts of code endpoints-- local folders, Git/SVN URLs, private corporate repos, etc. Version 1.0 of CommandBox focused on ForgeBox though, which is our CFML code depot. It may have started out as a ColdBox/ContentBox-specific thing, but is now open to the entire community to put any project they want on. I'm excited to already see entries like CFWheels, FW/1, MXUnit, and MonkehTweets on there. The more packages installable from CommandBox via ForgeBox, the more we all win.
Soon ForgeBox will get even more life of its own enhancing it with more functionality such as having multiple versions of the same package. We've already set up forgebox.io as the new domain for ForgeBox's HTML interface where you can search, sort, and filter the entries in your web browser. We've also built a "forgebox" namespace into CommandBox that uses the REST API to let you interact with ForgeBox from your console.
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:
Jorge Reyes |
