Passing arguments to constructors using CreateObject in Coldfusion

Question

Hi there,

I'm trying to use a Java object in Coldfusion using the CreateObject function.

This works fine when the constructor in the Java class doesn't take any arguments e.g.:

MyObject myObject = new MyObject();

Goes to

myObject = CreateObject("java",  "com.something.MyObject");

But I'm not sure how to pass arguments to the constructor for code like this:

MyObject2 myObject2 = new MyObject2(myArgment);

I'm sure this should be really simple, but I can't find this anywhere.

Thanks,

Tom

Answer 1

You can pass them in the init method like this:

myObject = CreateObject("java",  "com.something.MyObject").init(constructorArg1, constructorarg2);

Note that if you do NOT call init at all then you will be working with only static methods of the object and not an instance.