Question

I have a ColdFusion component that will return some JSON data:

component
{
    remote function GetPeople() returnformat="json"
    {
        var people = entityLoad("Person");
        return people;
    }
}

Unfortunately, the returned JSON has all the property names in upper case:

[
    {
        FIRSTNAME: "John",
        LASTNAME: "Doe"
    },
    {
        FIRSTNAME: "Jane",
        LASTNAME: "Dover
    }
]

Is there any way to force the framework to return JSON so that the property names are all lower-case (maybe a custom UDF/CFC that someone else has written)?

Answer 1

From http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8/htmldocs/help.html?content=functions_s_03.html
Note: ColdFusion internally represents structure key names using
all-uppercase characters, and, therefore, serializes the key names to
all-uppercase JSON representations. Any JavaScript that handles JSON
representations of ColdFusion structures must use all-uppercase
structure key names, such as CITY or STATE. You also use the
all-uppercase names COLUMNS and DATA as the keys for the two arrays
that represent ColdFusion queries in JSON format.

If you’re defining the variables yourself, you can use bracket notation (as Jason’s answer shows), but with built-in stuff like ORM I think you’re stuck – unless you want to create your own struct, and clone the ORM version manually, lower-casing each of the keys, but that’s not really a great solution. :/