Help writing Web Services in ColdFusion

[spook007]

I've written a CFC code that I would like to access as a web service.

<cfcomponent>
<cffunction name=&quot;getDBList&quot; access=&quot;remote&quot; returntype=&quot;query&quot;>
<cfset qResults=&quot;&quot;>
<cfquery name=&quot;DBList&quot; datasource=&quot;stewlib&quot;>
SELECT ARTICLE_ID, ARTICLE_NAME, ARTICLE_DESCRIPTION, ARTICLE_LINK
FROM LIBRARY.ARTICLE
ORDER BY ARTICLE_NAME ASC
</cfquery>
<cfreturn qResults>
</cffunction>
</cfcomponent>

It works just fine in DW, it's a pretty straight forward CFC. When I look at what the Service returns, it is a single array with all the data inside it. I've seen some other Web Services that send the results as a whole array and as individual fields as well. How can I change my code so that I can have ColdFusion send the individual field info as well? Thanks.

 

[csteinhilber]

You write additional functions with appropriate returntype attributes.

I'm not sure what &quot;individual field info&quot; you're after, by, say, if you wanted the web service to return the article ID, you'd write an additional function called &quot;getArticleID&quot; or whatever, that would return a string or whatever.

Is that what you mean?


-Carl

 

[spook007]

I've been doing some reading and I think I'm getting closer to what I'm looking for. It's tough to explain if you don't really understand how this works. I think what I'm after is CFPROPERTY.

I'm trying to do a Web Service, because I'm trying to populate my components in Flash MX 2004. In order for me to be able to populate my components I have to be able to capture the values from the individual fields. There are examples out there of other Web Services like (

http://www.swanandmokashi.com/HomePage/WebServices/StockQuotes.asmx?WSDL)

that send optional field info (like CompanyName, StockQuote, StockTicker, etc.)