Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / July 2006

Newbie trying to understand how to work with Complex Data Type. Came across
the following example in the Dev Guide

What is wrong with Client Code? What am I missing?

Please help

Thanks
Prashanth

<!--- Component defining complex Data Type called "name" (Saved within
name.cfc) --->
<cfcomponent>
<cfproperty name="Firstname" type="string">
<cfproperty name="Lastname" type="string">
</cfcomponent>

<!--- Web Service Function --->
<cfcomponent>
<cffunction name="echoName" returnType="name" access="remote" output="false">
  <cfargument name="input" type="name">
  <Cfset input.firstname="First Name">
  <CfSet input.lastname="Last Name">   
  <cfreturn #arguments.input#>
</cffunction>
</cfcomponent>

<!--- Client trying to Access the Webservice Function echoName --->
<cfinvoke
 webservice="http://localhost:8500/SampleSites/DataTypeComponent.cfc?wsdl"
 method="echoName"
 returnvariable="aName">
    <cfinvokeargument name="input" value="aName"/>
    <cfoutput> #aName.firstname# </cfoutput>
</cfinvoke>