cfoInvokeMethod

Summary:
Calls (executes) a method of an object or class.

Attributes:

Attribute	Description	Default	Required	Deprecated
OBJECT	A reference to an object previously created with cfoCreateObject. Required for methods declared as TYPE="public".		No	Yes
METHOD	The namespace of the method to invoke.		Yes	No
CLASS	The name of the class containing the method. Normally, this attribute should be excluded. However, may be used to invoke a method within a specific class within an inheritance hierarchy, or may be used to invoke "static" methods.		No	Yes
PACKAGE	Only applies to STATIC methods. PUBLIC methods will use the package defined during cfoCreateObject.		No	Yes
ONEVENT	This attribute tells cfObjects to invoke this method only when it encounters an entry in the Event Handler Pool (defined by the cfoRaiseEvent tag)		No	No

Examples:
This basic example creates a local object named "aCustomer" from the Customer class, and then the dump method is executed.

<cf_cfoCreateObject class="Person.Customer">

<cf_cfoInvokeMethod method="aCustomer.dump">

This next example demonstrates how the special base identifier can be used to call a superclass method from within a subclass method. For example, assume the Customer class is a subclass of the Person class. Now assume that the Customer class has a constructor method, and Person also has a constructor. In order to call the Person constructor from within the body of the Customer constructor method, the base identifier is used on the #self# object.

<cf_cfoInvokeMethod object="#self#"" method="base.constructor">
<!--- do other stuff here --->
<cfparam name="self.accountNumber" default="">

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