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HTML CFGRID not passing all modified values

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 20:22:56 GMT

I've got an HTML type CFGRID (using CF10) and keep running into this issue where it's not passing all the fields that I modify. Say I have 5 rows, and I modify the same 3 columns in all 5 rows (entering prices). All 15 cells get the little red modified indicator, but when I submit the form, the resulting form variables don't contain all the changes. I'm dumping out the form object, and looking at the "grid.rowstatus.action" array to find which rows need updating, as well as the individual arrays containing each column's data.

I can't see any pattern to why it sometimes omits rows or even just cells I've modified. And it's not always the same, and sometimes it gets it right. I haven't been able to find any references to similar behavior, so I'm kind of stumped, and at this point, I may have to ditch the cfgrid and try a JQuery grid of some sort to see if it works better.

Anyone have any ideas?

CFTTP Remove action doesn't actually delete file

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 20:01:49 GMT

I'm about to throw my monitor through the wall on this one. I'm working on a process to retrieve order files from an sFTP server, and I have to delete them off the server after downloading them. The CFFTP action="remove" call is returning a success status code, but the file is not actually being deleted from the server. I've tested this under both FTP and sFTP (the server supports both), and it's the same both ways. I also tested deleting the file through an FTP client (SecureFX), and that way it DOES actually delete the file, so I'm inclined to think it's not the server somehow blocking the action.

Here's my code:

</cfif>

</cfloop>

The dumps of #orders# and #noworders# show me the directory listing before and after the delete, and they're constantly identical. The dump of the cfftp after the remove consistently shows me this:

struct
ErrorCode	0
ErrorText	SSH_FX_OK successful completion of the operation
ReturnValue	0 SSH_FX_OK successful completion of the operation
Succeeded	YES

But the damn file is still there. I had originally NOT had the getcurrentdir call in there, just specifying the directory statically in the remove statement, but it was the same result.

I read the cfftp.succeeded as meaning that I'm specifying a valid file name, but for some reason it's not going away. I tried this under CF8 and CF10 to the same results.

Anybody seen this behavior before? I guess another option would be to try spawning a separate process to delete the files, but that really sucks.

Can't get this.mappings to work

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 23:09:19 GMT

Okay, I'm stumped enough to break a laptop. I've been reading every post I can find today on how to setup per-Application mappings, and it just doesn't work. Here's my situation:

I have an existing site running on Linux under CF 9.0.1, and I had Mappings configured in CF Admin for 2 directories that I use in cfinclude tags throughout my CFMs and CFCs (so that those directories can remain above the webroot and not be exposed by Apache). All that worked fine forever.

Now I need to set up a second site with a separate set of directories, but I'm starting with a copy of the existing site's folders and then modifying the paths as needed. For example, my first site is in /web/website, and my mappings are for "/cf-include" and "/cfc" mapped to "/web/website/cfc" and "/web/website/cf-include" in the Admin. My webroot is "/web/website/htdocs", which is configured as my DocumentRoot in Apache. For my second site, I created a new directory "/web/stwebsite" containing copies of the same directories, and created a VirtualHost in Apache with a DocumentRoot of "/web/stwebsite/htdocs". I then added the following two mapping lines to my new Application.cfc (in that new directory), outside any of the functions :

...

I also made sure I had the Enable Per-App Settings checked in my CF Admin (it already was). However, when I try to use those mappings, I get the one from the Admin and not the Application.cfc:

I verified this by changing the content of that file in the two different directories and seeing which version showed up.

So my question is, what's preventing the this.mappings settings from being used? Am I wrong in understanding that I should be able to set those in the Application.cfc for the new site (which IS being used for that site, I verified that by changing what happens in the OnApplicationStart method) and have them supercede the Admin settings? I also tried deleting the Mappings in the Admin, but that left all the cfincludes failing (saying the mapping didn't exist). What am I missing?

Some questions from a Homesite lover

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:40:09 GMT

I'm forcing myself finally to begin the transition to CF Builder 2 after 10 years of using Homesite, and a few things are still really bugging me. My current environment is a mix of Windows servers and Linux servers. In Homesite, I edit the files on the Windows servers directly using mapped network drives, and the Linux files using FTP. I'm having trouble finding the ideal setup for CF Builder for a few reasons.

Even after installing the 2.01 Beta, editing files via FTP in the File View seems to not always update the server, even after I checked the new box in the FTP Properties panel. The inconsistency is what's driving me nuts there.

As for the Windows servers, I had been using RDS to make my edits and that works reasonable well, except I can't find a way to compare two files to each other. That option only seems to appear in the Navigator View, which means I would have to create projects for all my servers. Is that pretty much the best way to use CF Builder? It seems cumbersome, but I realize that while my previous practices may have been convenient, they might not be the best practice.

Deploying CF App as WAR on Tomcat

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:11:39 GMT

I'm trying to deploy a simple CF8 application on Tomcat 5.5 as a WAR file. I've done the export of the app from the CF Admin as a WAR file and copied it over to my Tomcat webapps directory. When I first tried to start Tomcat, I got an error related to the "*.cfml/*" servlet-mappings in web.xml, so I commented those out based on a post I found elsewhere. But now I'm getting this error, and I can't figure out why:

javax.servlet.ServletException: Invalid configuration at line 2 in file /usr/local/apache-tomcat-5.5.23/webapps/wishlist/WEB-INF/flex/flex-config.xml - cvc-elt.1: Cannot find the declaration of element 'flex-config'.
at flex.server.j2ee.cache.CacheFilter.setupFlexService(CacheFilter.java:93)

The flex/flex-config.xml file is there, and line 2 reads:
<flex-config xmlns=" http://www.adobe.com/2006/flex-config">

Are there other manual edits I need to make in order to get this to work? If Flex is the problem, can I disable it from being included in the WAR? Has anyone done this (putting a ColdFusion WAR file on Tomcat)?

Confused by the way an async job is running

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:30:46 GMT

I'm testing an async process that I've been running for months and months on CF8 32-bit on a new Windows 2008 64-bit server. It typically runs for about 4-5 hours, with two threads handling data manipulation on two different sets of data. I have logging built in to tell me how long each 500 items in each thread take to process, so I can see at any time where the processes are. The reason I'm testing it on 64-bit is because when this process runs alongside some other bulky ones, it was hitting the 1.5Gb JVM ceiling, so I wanted to give it its own instance with a 3Gb heap in 64-bit.

I've already gone through the drill of updating my JDK (to 1.6.20) per Charlie Arehart's suggestion. What I'm seeing is really weird. The process runs along fine for about two hours, which gets it about halfway through the total number of items to be processed, and the speed is on par or better than it is in 32-bit. Then all of a sudden, it screeches to a crawl, taking 4-5 times as long to process each chunk of items. What's weird is that up to that point, I can see the JVM memory usage in CF Server Monitor, and it's spiky but remaining consistently below the 3Gb ceiling. Right at the point that it slowed down, the memory levels off around 2.1Gb and stops spiking (image attached). I would have expected to see it level off at max memory and get slow, but if there's still almost a gig of memory free and nothing else is running on the server, why is it slowing down? I verified there are no issues on the database servers I'm using, and this has happened exactly the same way twice day, once with the original JDK from CF8.0.1 and once with the new one. I checked the JRUN logs, but there's nothing significant in there.

Does anybody have any suggestions for how to tackle this? Is it worth messing with 64-bit, or should I just create multiple 32-bit instances? Is CF9 any better at this than CF8?

CF8/64-bit/Multi-server Configuration

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 20:53:18 GMT

I'm experimenting with setting up a multi-server configuration of CF8 64-bit on Windows Server 2008 64-bit, thanks to several helpful blogs I found on the topic. I've got the basic setup complete, but what I'm finding is that when I create my first instance in Instance Manager, that instance is MUCH slower than it should be. This is immediately noticeable going into the CF Admin on the new instance (port 8301) compared to the initial CFUSION install (the default where you configure the instances from). Everything is slow--the page load, the image load, etc. I threw a simple index.cfm page with one cfoutput in the root directory for the main install and in the cfusion.ear/cfusion.war folder for the instance, and it too was much slower to open (repeatedly) in the new instance.

Because everything is slower, I'm prone to blame IIS7, but before I go through the bother of installing Apache, I thought I'd see if anyone had run into this. Another candidate could be the install on 64-bit, but I thought everything matched up okay. Is there a specific JVM that runs best on Windows 64-bit?

My goal is to have 2-3 CF instances running on this server (which has 10Gb of RAM), so I can have isolated JVM heaps to run large overnight jobs which tend to create memory issues if they're run on the same instance. So each instance could have its own codebase.

Speaking of that part, this may be a dumb question, but since I've only ever worked with Single Server installs, I'm not sure. When I add/modify cfcs and cfms for the instances, do I just update the files within the cfusion.ear/cfusion.war folder for that instance (in the jrun4/servers directory), or is there something you have to do to package and deploy? I've used Tomcat for JSP apps before and I hate it, so I'm hoping it's nothing like that.

I appreciate any suggestions anyone can provide.

GPG, CFEXECUTE and cfGnuPG

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 13:44:31 GMT

I'm building an application in CFMX 6.1 (on Windows 2000 Server) that needs to take a file or files encrypted with our GPG public key and decrypt them to produce XML files. I'm using GnuPG, and have worked out all the encrypt/decrypt stuff on the command line of the server. I then was using the cfGnuPG CFC with the gpg.jar Java wrapper to encrypt and decrypt data streams, which worked great, but the gpgDecrypt function in that CFC doesn't seem to handle full files, and if I read the file contents into a variable and then try to decrypt it, it fails.

So what I'm now back to trying is to use CFEXECUTE to call the decryption function. This command works from the command prompt on the server:

> C:\Progra~1\GNU\GnuPG\gpg.exe --passphrase-fd 0 < c:\gnupg\pp.txt -o E:\devroot\iqvc\input\\neworders.xml -d e:\devroot\iqvc\input\\128391924.neworders

I put my passphrase in a text file and pass it into the passphrase-fd parameter as suggested, and the file designated is decrypted and saved as the new filename.

However, executing this command from CFEXECUTE just hangs--I see a new gpg.exe process spawn on the server, but no output is returned (see attached code). The outputfile is created, but remains empty, and the CF page times out after the 120 seconds. I can do a simple CFEXECUTE of gpg.exe with the "--list-keys" argument, and it returns the correct output. So what's different about this decrypt command? If the command were producing a response prompt, shouldn't that write to the outputfile?

I gather that the CFEXEXCUTE process runs GPG under the "Default User" profile, since when I used it to create keys, that's where they went. Is that correct?

If anybody has any ideas, or a better way to do this, please let me know.

Timeout for CFC Method

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:52:23 GMT

I have a series of CFC methods which call each other (using cfinvoke) to determine the inventory of an item, and down in the lowest level of the calls, I'm making a Java Socket() call to my ERP server to get real-time inventory (and then that value is bubbled up and used through the calling CFCs to determine what message to display on our site. The issue I'm trying to deal with is how to gracefully recognize when there's no response from the ERP server and give up within 3 seconds. So ideally, I'd like to add some sort of timeout to either the method that makes the socket call itself, or the method that calls that method.

The socket class that I'm using has an internal connection timeout of 5 seconds, although it doesn't seem to really follow that. If I point it at a non-responsive address, it seems to take over a minute to give up and timeout. So I don't trust that setting, even if I wanted to recompile the class to receive the timeout as a parm. Here's the basic Java code used to create the socket connection:

Socket socket = new Socket();
try {
socket.connect(new InetSocketAddress(host, Integer.parseInt(port)), 1000);
socket.setSoTimeout(5000);
}

I tried adding <cfsetting requesttimeout="3"> to the method that makes the socket call based on some other posts I'd found, but it has no effect. I also tried making the final cfinvoke call as a webservice with the timeout parameter set, but again, it doesn't timeout.

Anybody have any other suggestions? Would love a CFTIMEOUT tag.

CFLOG Precision

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:57:11 GMT

Has anybody found a way to have better time precision in CFLOG? I have quite a few batch processes where I like to write to a log as the process runs so I can track how long various steps take, where it leaves off, etc. But the problem is that the logs seem to only have precision to the nearest minute--if I have several steps which finish and cflog within the same minute (i.e. 4:55), they don't necessarily appear in the right order. Is there any way to make the cflog entries have at least to-the-second precision, if not better? It would just make a useful tool much more useful.

I realize I could create my own text file logs, but the ease of accessing the logs through the Admin is quite a significant benefit.

CFFTP and chmod in CF8

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:17:09 GMT

I have a program I wrote originally in CFMX6.1 that FTPs files to a bunch of Linux servers, and has to change the permissions on them (chmod). I found a nice method for doing this that went something like this:

<cfset putit=createObject("java","coldfusion.oroinc.net.ftp.FTPClient").init()>
<cfftp connection="putit" action="putfile" remotefile="#remotefile#" localfile="#localfile#" failifexists="No">
<cfscript>putit.sendSiteCommand("chmod 755 #remotefile#");</cfscript>

By invoking the FTPClient directly, you could access the sendSiteCommand method and issue the chmod. Now I'm trying to move this program to CF8, but I'm getting a class not found exception on the coldfusion.oroinc.net.ftp.FTPClient object. I'm guessing that the client changed in CF8, but I can't seem to find any references online as to how to do this in CF8. I'm sure I'm not the only one who needs to chmod files after transferring them. Anybody?

JRun OutOfMemory Restarts

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:43:30 GMT

I've got a big async process that runs nightly on my CF8 server to rebuild my product database (should take 4-5 hours when running properly), and it frequently (3-4 times per week) causes CF to restart with a JRun OutOfMemory error:

# An unexpected error has been detected by Java Runtime Environment:
#
# java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: requested 16384000 bytes for GrET in C:\BUILD_AREA\jdk6_04\hotspot\src\share\vm\utilities\growableArray.cpp. Out of swap space?
#
# Internal Error (allocation.inline.hpp:42), pid=7024, tid=3756
# Error: GrET in C:\BUILD_AREA\jdk6_04\hotspot\src\share\vm\utilities\growableArray.cpp

The basic flow of the process is to do a few database queries to gather about 25,000 items, and then process each one in a grouped CFOUTPUT (need to group the query by product family, otherwise I'd normally use CFLOOP). Within each grouped iteration, I recycle a set of scalar variables for each family, so I'm not creating any persistent variables. I invoke a few CFCs via CFINVOKE to assemble some data, one of which does use Session variables, but my understanding is that all this would be considered one session. Then the data for that family is written to the database, and the loop continues to the next family.

What I don't understand is why my JRun memory usage continually creeps up and up over the course of the process. If I'm not creating persistent variables as the loop proceeds, what's accumulating there? I'm not caching any queries, I'm not building any accumulative variables, but the memory goes up and up till it causes a restart.

I'm running version 8,0,1,195765, with Java 1.6.0_04 using the following args:
-server -Dsun.io.useCanonCaches=false -XX:MaxNewSize=16m -XX:NewSize=16m -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:+UseParNewGC -Dcoldfusion.rootDir={application.home}/../ -Dcoldfusion.libPath={application.home}/../lib

Can anyone suggest some steps I could take to get this thing running better? I've used the Server Monitor to watch the progress, although I can't use Memory Tracking (it eats the server up within minutes). Am I missing something really obvious in the Java configuration? Is the use of Session variables in the CFCs I invoke a bad idea?

Mercado Web Service

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:08:06 GMT

Our company uses the Mercado CSN search solution, and I'm working on a proof-of-concept program to retrieve and parse Mercado search results in Coldfusion 8. If you're familiar with Mercado, great, if not, it simply takes a SOAP request (attached) and returns a big XML resultset.

I can get the request to work using the CFSAVECONTENT/CFHTTP trick for submitting it, but I wanted to see if I could do it as a webservice. When I try to, I get a "Cannot create stub objects" error suggesting an issue with the wsdl. I'm not sure if the problem is that the Mercado interface doesn't return the WSDL or I can't make it do it, or maybe I'm just missing something in my attempt to use CFINVOKE.

My main question is, am I going to be more efficient using CFINVOKE vs. CFHTTP, or is it a wash?

Examples attached, any input is welcome.

CFFORM script running slowly

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:19:21 GMT

I've been working on an extranet app that would allow a vendor to update multiple purchase order records in a single screen without having to click to open each record and save individually. I show a whole list of POs with 4 fields per PO, and then lines for each item on the PO with 3 fields per line. The user updates any or all fields and then clicks Save, and I process the whole form. This is being done in CF8 using an HTML CFFORM.

The problem I'm having seems to be when I pass a certain number of records on the page--I get one of those "a script is causing your page to run slowly" messages, in both IE and Firefox. I eliminated my own Javascripts as a possible cause, leaving the Javascripts generated by the CFFORM. Sure enough, I changed the form to a regular HTML form and the script error went away. But that means I will have to go back and code my own validation routines and calendar controls.

Is there a known limit to how many CFINPUT elements can efficiently run on a page? Any workarounds for a CFFORM with hundreds of elements? I realize there are other ways to accomplish this, but I'd like to know for this one in particular if it simply can't be done.

Scheduled Task run twice

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:31:24 GMT

One of my servers is running CF8, and I have a daily scheduled task that starts at 7PM and initiates an async gateway process. Last night, the task fired twice at the same time. Here's the entries from my IIS log showing the scheduler executing the task twice:

2008-04-15 23:00:00 W3SVC1 10.10.10.80 GET /web/web_import_live_zap.cfm runflag=full 80 - 10.10.10.80 CFSCHEDULE 200 0 0
2008-04-15 23:00:00 W3SVC1 10.10.10.80 GET /web/web_import_live_zap.cfm runflag=full 80 - 10.10.10.80 CFSCHEDULE 200 0 0

Needless to say, this created a problem. Has anybody else seen this behavior? I've always had issues with the Scheduler in previous versions (5,6,7), but usually it's been that a task doesn't fire. I've never seen it where the task gets double-dipped.

Max JVM Heap Size in CF8

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:37:05 GMT

I recently installed the CF8 Trial on a Win2003 Server (32-bit), 2 dual-core AMD 2.6GHz CPUs, 8Gb RAM. I'm trying to benchmark some processes from my production CFMX6.1 system, but I can't get the JVM settings to match. On my production server, I have the max size set to 1536M, but I can't get CF8 to start with anything over 1024M (I get that 0x2 error). Obviously, it's a newer JRE, but I don't understand why I can't go to 1.5Gb on this one.

Also, should I change the default JVM settings?

-server -Dsun.io.useCanonCaches=false -XX:MaxPermSize=512m -XX:MaxNewSize=16m -XX:NewSize=16m -XX:+UseParallelGC -Dcoldfusion.rootDir={application.home}/../ -Dcoldfusion.libPath={application.home}/../lib

What's eating up my memory?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 18:14:04 GMT

I'm trying to optimize a batch process I have that runs nightly to repopulate our website's item database. It's currently running as an async process on CFMX7, and I'm benchmarking on on CF8 and trying to squeeze some more performance out of it.

The basic flow is that the initial query grabs about 50,000 items, just getting their SKU, unique numeric ID and one other field. Then the program loops through those items one at a time, retrieves a bunch of additional data on each one, builds a structure containing all the data relevant to that item, appends that structure to another structure for a family of items, then sends that structure off to another async process that handles writing the family to the database. Once it does that, the structures are all reinitialized and reused (same variable names) for the next family in the loop. This whole process takes 5-6 hours as it is now.

What's interesting to me is that running it in CF8 and watching the server monitor, I see my Memory Usage just keep growing steadily as the process runs, never really cleaning up, and eventually maxing out. But if I look at the details of memory usage, I see just a few variables in memory, which are the ones that are recycled on each iteration. So what's eating up the memory? I thought that if I reused the query and variable names, they'd basically be destroyed and recreated on each iteration of the loop, but it's almost like every iteration accumulates junk in memory that never goes away.

Does anyone have any insight to this, and how I might further optimize the process to better manage memory?

Random CFMX 6.1 Restarts

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:22:40 GMT

We've had our production intranet running on CFMX 6.1 (6,1,0,hf53852_61) for about 3 years now. In the last few weeks, we've been noticing a higher incidence of spontaneous restarts of the CF service (maybe 3-4 times per week), but there's no indication in the JRUN or CF logs of why the service is restarting. We use SeeFusion to monitor JVM memory usage and active requests, and memory is never an issue at the time of the restarts, and there are no "chunky" jobs running at the time either.

Are there any other known reasons for the CFMX service to restart itself, or any place else I should be looking for clues? My only response to my boss right now is that I hope when we upgrade to CF8 this year, the problem will go away (and be replaced by a new one).

Compilation exception in CFC

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 17:02:34 GMT

I've got a couple of CFCs, one extending the other, that have been working fine for a long time, but recently one of them seems to keep generating an error when I call it as a web server (?wsdl). It's throwing the following exception:

Fault - [coldfusion.jsp.CompilationFailedException : Errors reported by Java compiler:
Found 1 syntax error in "C:/CFusionMX/wwwroot/WEB-INF/cfc-skeletons/cfc/common.java":

2. public class common extends /cfc/functions {
<--->
*** Syntax: Unexpected symbols ignored

The error seems to be indicating a problem with the "/cfc/" portion of the extends attribute, but I simply have:
<CFCOMPONENT extends="functions">

and it's in the same path. What's the deal? The weird thing is that if I "refresh" the functions.cfc?wsdl, I can then usually get the other one to compile. Haven't made any significant changes to either one.