Question

Say I have this code:

function doFileStuff(){
    var file = "";
    try {
        file = fileOpen(filePath);
        // do stuff with file
    }
    finally {
        fileClose(file);
    }
}

If the fileOpen() process fails, the fileClose() call will error. What I need to do is this sort of thing (pseudocode):

if (isFile(file)){
    fileClose(file);
}

I know I can test if file is an empty string still, and this works for me here, but it’s not testing what I should be testing: whether file is a file handle. I can check the object’s Java class, but this again sounds a bit hacky to me, and there should be a CFML way of doing it.

There should be something like just isFile(), shouldn’t there? I can’t find anything like this in the docs.

Any thoughts / tips? I have gone into more depth in my investigations on my blog. it’s too wordy for here.

Answer 1

I’m marking this as answered: basically there is no native way of doing it. I’ve raised a ticket with Adobe to get it sorted.

Thanks for all the feedback.

UPDATE: According to that ticket I raised, this has been implemented as isFileObject() in ColdFusion 11.