Don't Use Delete for a CFC function Name if You Want to Call The Function From Flex

Posted At : November 15, 2006 1:29 PM | Posted By : Bruce Phillips
Related Categories: ColdFusion, Flex

I was creating a new Flex 2.0 application using CFC's to do the create, read, update, and delete work in the database. While testing the delete CFC function from within Flex I got a syntax error when compiling if I tried to do ProgramDAO.delete( aProgramObj ).

delete is apparently a keyword in ActionScript (the word shows up blue in Flex Builder) and cannot be used as a function name even if the function is in a CFC.

I changed the function name in the CFC to deleteRecord and ProgramDAO.deleteRecord( aProgramObj ) works fine.

After checking the Programming ActionScript 3.0 documentation I found delete on the keywords list on page 75. When you do use the delete keyword as I tried to above you get a hard-to-understand error message. It took me a while to figure out the cause of the problem, so I'm posting this blog entry to hopefully help others avoid my mistake.

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This was brought up during public beta, but I'm unsure why the change wasn't finalized. deleteById() might show up in the next release, though.
# Posted By James Lyon | 11/15/06 2:51 PM
There is another way of calling a function on the remote object which should get around the problem:

myRemoteObject.getOperation('nameOfCFCmethod').send(arg1,arg2,...);
# Posted By mh23 | 7/17/07 1:13 AM
Or just spell delete with an upper case "D".

myRemoteObject.Delete();

That should work.
# Posted By Joe | 10/11/07 8:13 AM
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