Here’s a start on what I’d like to see in ColdFusion 10 and beyond…
Updated 28th July 2010…
valueList() function:
- add startrow and maxrows OR startrow and endrow params so you can filter it without having to loop
- add another attribute to cfloop and cfoutput (name=bla?) so that you could reference a particular tag for getting your valuelist
- add nullValue AND emptyValue parameters to allow a value to be set if the value is null
- to set each row’s parameter to a default (like isNull(x,0) in sql) eg: (10,,,3,4 becomes 10,0,0,3,4 with nullValue set to 0)
- Add another parameter to set value if nothing is in the output (aka = “”) so when you’re using it in a query like bob IN (<cfqueryparam value=#valuelist(qPages.status)#”>) you can utilize it like someid IN <cfqueryparam value=#valuelist(qPages.status,0)#”>
- formatting parameter (ie: format=”date” mask=”dd/mm/yy” or format=”number” mask=”(00) 0000 0000″)
Ajax Libraries:
- Ability to set the ajax libraries in application settings in app.cfc so you can choose ONE engine for scripts to be generated/used.
- Abiltity to have a ajaxsource like a datasource and you can add them into the administrator ( and point them to cdn’s/google
- CFAJAX lib=”ext,jquery,spry,etc” validate=”ext” source=”googlecode”
- CFAJAXLIB lib=”ext” -> this points to ajaxmapping
ColdFusion Administrator:
- Admin API needs to be more thourough
- ExtJS based admin panel
- Inline updater for updates (as well as visual alerts when one is available)
- Multiple site admin with better usability – make more like other similar managers like vmware or alike
- Mailserver to be added as mailsources like databases so you can add mailsource=”gmail.com” to your cfmail tag
- also need a flag that can be set to ‘developer’ so that it just queues those emails in a folder called ‘dev’ on same level as spool and undelivr and expose the directory through the admin api so that it can be read programically (as well as a basic ajax reader in the cfadmin that can read html and text versions of the messagesApplication-Based Settings
Application-Specific Settings:
- Ability to specifiy default component to be extended per application
- Ability to place an item in onServerStart from a setting
Generally:
- CFANT tag/cfscript also incorporating subversion repository management
- Global proxy settings for getting out of firewalls easily
- get application.cfc to work like other cfcs including interaction
- onServerStart server-warming feature that applications can add via cfadmin api – and managed through list interface
- Support cloud support for mappings, etc
- Support install to the cloud
- Minimise install by having a core install and option selected functionalitites, or modules that you can choose to add or remove
- Add ability to add plugin modules to add core functionality ie: add CFSILLY tag to tags available to every page and administrate this on a per site basis (sandboxable)
- Bundle jBuddy IM with CF
- 2d and other barcodes and Microsoft Tag
- Reduce the footprint of jrun or replace it with something leaner
- Free limited tag/feature version of CF
- GroupCurrentRow variable like currentRow variable when group= is used for cfoutput and cfloop
