ColdFusion Calling CFC page for ajax

Question

Hey all I am trying to call the following cfm page in order to call a cfc page via ajax:

https://dev-thesite.com/personnel/search.cfm page:

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.2.4/jquery.min.js"></script> <script> $(document).ready(function() { $.ajax({ type:'GET', url: 'search_ajax.cfc?method=searchAward', data: { Totals:'100', CodeNum:'165161', TestYear:'2016', SelType:'blah', SelJuris:'juris' }, success: function(data) { alert(data); }, error: function(data) { console.log('err: ', data); } }); }); </script> <div id="testing"></div>

https://dev-thesite.com/personnel/search_ajax.cfc page:

<cfcomponent> <cffunction name="searchAward" access="remote" returntype="string"> <cfargument name="Totals" type="string" required="true"> <cfargument name="CodeNum" type="string" required="true"> <cfargument name="TestYear" type="string" required="true"> <cfargument name="SelType" type="string" required="true"> <cfargument name="SelJuris" type="string" required="true"> <cfscript> if(arguments.Totals = '5'){ return 'YES!'; } else { return 'NO!'; } </cfscript> </cffunction> </cfcomponent>

Currently when running this I get the error side of the ajax call.

500 - Internal server error.

There is a problem with the resource you are looking for, and it cannot be displayed.

Any help would be great at fixing this error in ColdFusion 9!

Go into CFAdmin and enable debugging so that you can see the error. It looks like you're using an assignment statement instead of a comparison in your if clause. — Sterling Archer
– Sterling Archer, Commented Sep 6, 2016 at 13:32
Also, it looks like arguments needs to be Arguments according to the docs — Sterling Archer
– Sterling Archer, Commented Sep 6, 2016 at 13:37
Call the method directly from ColdFusion and see if the error occurs. — Dan Bracuk
– Dan Bracuk, Commented Sep 6, 2016 at 13:39
@DanBracuk yes, it does have the same 500 error when going to dev-thesite.com/personnel/… — StealthRT
– StealthRT, Commented Sep 6, 2016 at 13:47
You need to tick "Enable Robust Exception Information" under the Debugging Settings in CF Administrator to see what's going on. With a plain "500 Oops something went wrong" error, all bets are off. — Tomalak
– Tomalak, Commented Sep 6, 2016 at 13:58

StealthRT · Accepted Answer · 2016-09-06 15:12:51Z

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Well it looks like all that was wrong was changing this:

if(arguments.Totals = '5'){

to this:

if(arguments.Totals eq '5'){

Just adding the eq seems to have fixed it oddly enough.

answered Sep 6, 2016 at 15:12

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2 Comments

Tomalak Over a year ago

eq is ColdFusion's traditional equality operator. From ColdFusion 9 onwards you can write it as == in <cfscript> sections. = is the assignment operator. I haven't spotted it, either. (compare the documentation)

Mark A Kruger Over a year ago

Makes total sense. In the original you just had a var set to "5" - that's probably resulting in your 500 error.

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