Question

I am creating a query using cfscript syntax, and I have two query parameters that are dates. I created the date string the first time using

queryservice.addParam(
     name="last_update",
     value="createODBCDate(now())",
     cfsqltype="cf_sql_date");

I would assume this would an analogue to:

<cfqueryparam value="#createODBCDate(now())#" cfsqltype="cf_sql_date">

So, when I run the query, I’m getting:

The cause of this output exception was that: coldfusion.runtime.Cast$DateStringConversionException: The value createODBCDate(now()) cannot be converted to a date.

Fine. So I created a variable,

var currentDate = createODBCDate(now());

added it to

queryservice.addParam(
     name="last_update",
     value="createODBCDate(now())",
     cfsqltype="cf_sql_date");

and got

The cause of this output exception was that: coldfusion.runtime.Cast$DateStringConversionException: The value currentDate cannot be converted to a date.

When I created the query using the standard <cfquery ... syntax it worked fine.

So, I’m assuming that I am doing something wrong, but I can’t for the life of me figure out what that is.

By the way, this is really my first time trying to create a query using the <cfscript> syntax.

Answer 1

value="createODBCDate(now())"

You forgot the # signs around the function. Without those, it is just a string. So the function is never invoked and you end up passing in the literal characters “createODBCDate(now())” as the date value.

Update:

As an aside, cf_sql_date automatically removes any time portion. So while using createODBCDate will not hurt anything, it is redundant. You could simply write:

    queryservice.addParam(
         name="last_update",
         value="#now()#",
         cfsqltype="cf_sql_date");