CustomTag Interface

public abstract interface CustomTag

Interface for implementing custom tags.

Classes that implement this interface can be specified in the CLASS attribute of the Java CFX tag. For example, in a class MyCustomTag, which implements this interface, the following CFML code calls the MyCustomTag.processRequest method:

<CFX_MyCustomTag>

Other attributes can be passed to the Java CFX tag. Their values are available using the Request object passed to the processRequest method.

Methods

Returns Syntax Description

void

processRequest(Request request, Response response)
Processes a request originating from the CFX_mycustomtag tag

Returns	Syntax	Description
void	processRequest(Request request, Response response)	Processes a request originating from the `CFX_mycustomtag` tag

processRequest

Description

Processes a request originating from the Java CFX tag.

Syntax

public void processRequest(Request request, Response response)

Throws

Exception If an unexpected error occurs while processing the request.

Parameters

Parameter Description

request
Parameters (attributes, query, and so on.) for this request

response
Interface for generating response to request (output, variables, queries, and so on.)