Comments on: An oldschool way to debug AJAX http://www.rtraction.com/blog/devit/an-oldschool-way-to-debug-ajax.html rtraction blog Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:40:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 By: Jeremy http://www.rtraction.com/blog/devit/an-oldschool-way-to-debug-ajax.html#comment-2700 Jeremy Fri, 23 Nov 2007 15:00:03 +0000 http://www.rtraction.com/blog/devit/an-oldschool-way-to-debug-ajax.html#comment-2700 I ran into this specific problem the other day in Coldfusion. What I needed to be able to do is use a CFDUMP to find out what was in a query. Obviously like you mentioned you can't just dump an AJAX call. So I decided to follow your advice and write it to a file. What I ran into though is I didn't know how to capture the output of a CFDUMP. Did a quick search - CFSAVEOUTPUT was the answer. CFSAVEOUTPUT will save the output of whatever content you put between the start and end tags to a variable, which you specify as an attribute. Then I could just use CFFILE to output that variable to a file. Finally a way to debug AJAX in Coldfusion. I ran into this specific problem the other day in Coldfusion. What I needed to be able to do is use a CFDUMP to find out what was in a query. Obviously like you mentioned you can’t just dump an AJAX call. So I decided to follow your advice and write it to a file. What I ran into though is I didn’t know how to capture the output of a CFDUMP.

Did a quick search - CFSAVEOUTPUT was the answer. CFSAVEOUTPUT will save the output of whatever content you put between the start and end tags to a variable, which you specify as an attribute. Then I could just use CFFILE to output that variable to a file.

Finally a way to debug AJAX in Coldfusion.

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