why does adobe release this CFB2 debugger nonsense ?!

If I call a cfc from flex this is the error:

"Error","jrpp-65","06/22/12","13:44:05",,"Event handler exception. An exception occurred while invoking an event handler method from Application.cfc. The method name is: onApplicationStart."

if I call from a cfm:

"Error","jrpp-65","06/22/12","13:41:19","2EC8204583ADAF402268D67FCB11BF48","Element ENVIRONMENT is undefined in THIS. The specific sequence of files included or processed is: C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\coldfusion\tests\testEnvironmentName.cfm, line: 24 "

code in cfm=>

<cfdump var="#application.environment#" >

I see that, but I don't see what is wrong with my code:

<cfdump var="#application.environment#" >

because that var should be defined in app.cfc?

btw can you offer any tips on getting this horrible debugger to work better?

these debugger issues just force users to move to things like .Net

anyway, even if I do

 <cfdump var="#application.name#" >

I get the error

Element NAME is undefined in APPLICATION.

ah I thought application.var was used to access global vars

anyway I tried

<cfdump var="#this.name#" >

Element NAME is undefined in THIS.

sweet mate:

this is what I had to do

   <cfset application.env = environment >

hopefully i wont need to read much more:), .Net is a dream with c#

the code works fine for coldfusion apps, but when calling from flex via remote object I get this error now:

Unable to invoke CFC - Event handler exception.An exception occurred while invoking an event handler method from Application.cfc. The method name is: onApplicationStart.

could this be the problem:

<cffunction name="onApplicationStart" output="false">

      <cfset path = cgi.SERVER_NAME & cgi.SCRIPT_NAME>

all the log says is

"Error","jrpp-122","06/25/12","15:12:55",,"Event handler exception. An exception occurred while invoking an event handler method from Application.cfc. The method name is: onApplicationStart."

Debugger broken as usual.

I've narrowed down my error to this in app.cfc because the match is failing on a regex because I didnt realise flex requests always set this to the flex gateway

<cfset application.path = cgi.SERVER_NAME & cgi.SCRIPT_NAME>

I need to look at the file paths instead of these vars

I'm trying to get Cf to know the location of the actual cfc I'm calling from flex but I can't get anything other than stuff like this:

c:\\inetpub\\wwwroot\\flex2gateway

basically the problem im having now is there are no vars in CGI in CF that let me know the directory of the current cfc being called. which is a problem because my cf app needs to behave differently based on its location of the server

I've got the app.cfc working now:

<cffunction name="onApplicationStart" output="false">

..

    <cfset application.env = environment >

</cffunction>

however when I return this var to flex for testing it, it is empty in the flex debug

testing here in flex:

private function onResult2(event:ResultEvent, passthroughData:Object):void {

//should have a object

                 trace(event.result);

        }

perhaps the cfc is not getting the object env instatiated quickly enough on teh CF side?

that should work for me too,

what I'm trying to do is pass this application.env to flex so I can check the env variable is set up correctly, it appears in teh flex result event as an empty object

<cffunction name="onApplicationStart" output="false">

      <cfset path = cgi.HTTP_REFERER>

     <cfset serverAnd2Dirs = reFind("([\w-]+/\w+/\w+)",path,0,true)>

    <cfset match = mid(path, serverAnd2Dirs.pos[1], serverAnd2Dirs.len[1])   >

   <cfset var identifier = createObject("component","DomainEnvironmentIdentifier").init(match)>

    <cfset var environment = createObject("component","Environment" ).init(expandPath('/')&"flex\coldfusion\config\environments.xml.cfm")>

      <cfset environment.use( identifier.currentEnvironment() )>

    <cfset application.env = environment >

</cffunction>