CFML Reference

cfproperty

Description

Defines components as complex types that are used for web services authoring. The attributes of this tag are exposed as component metadata and are subject to inheritance rules.

Category

Extensibility tags

Syntax

<cfproperty 
  name="name" 
  type="type" 
  ...> 

See also

cfargument, cfcomponent, cffunction, cfinvoke, cfinvokeargument, cfobject, cfreturn

History

New in ColdFusion MX: This tag is new.

Attributes

Attribute	Req/Opt	Default	Description
name	Required		A string; a property name. Must be a static value.
type	Optional		A string; a property type name; data type. any array binary boolean date guid numeric query string struct uuid variableName a component name If the value is not a recognized type, ColdFusion processes it as a component name

Usage

You must position cfproperty tags at the beginning of a component, above executable code and function definitions.

If at least one cfproperty tag that has a property within it is present within a component, the property metadata is present in the component metadata.

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