Question

I have a search function that executes a stored procedure and returns results. If there are no results, I want to try running the function one more time with a more generalized search. So, I put a cfif into my code –

<cfif results.recordCount EQ 0 And Not arguments.searchForPotentialMatches>
   <cfset arguments.searchForPotentialMatches = True />
   <cfinvoke method="thisMethod" argumentCollection="#arguments#" />
</cfif>

Basically, if there were no results AND I haven’t already tried a generalized search, it should invoke this method again. Then, in the beginning of the method, before calling the stored procedure, I check if searchForPotentialMatches is true, and if it is, I generalize the search query.

There seems to be a problem, though… When I try to run this, it hangs – until there’s a timeout with the stored procedure. Through debugging and outputting variables, I’ve been able to see that it gets to the stored procedure, and then gets stuck trying to execute it. However, using the original function before these rerun changes, if I do the regular search and then the generalized search in 2 separate calls, it executes correctly. So I’m not sure why it fails when I try to build this in programmatically… What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

This feels unfair… But the issue was with something completely different. The recursive call works correctly, but there was another field that was getting changed due to a check in the function before calling the stored procedure and causing the stored proc to hang. Sorry about that, and thanks for all your help!