isMethodDefined() function??

I need an isMethod() or isMethodDefined() - or someway to fake it - to find out if a specific method of an object is available or not.

I'm not too keen on using a try/catch to do this as that seems really hacky to me.

Any ideas?

-D

You can use getMetaData() for a CFC and determine just about anything about the CFC from that. Though I suspect that this would be slower than just using cftry and calling the method to see what happens.

This function might help you

<cffunction name="isMethodDefined" returntype="boolean">
<cfargument name="component" type="any" required="true" />
<cfargument name="name" type="string" required="true" />
<cfset var funct = structfind( getmetadata( arguments.component ), 'functions')>
<cfset var i = 1>
<cfif isArray( funct ) and arraylen( funct )>
<cfloop from="1" to="#arraylen( funct )#" index="i">
<cfif funct[i].name eq arguments.name>
<cfreturn true />
</cfif>
</cfloop>
</cfif>
<cfreturn false />
</cffunction>

I didn't think of using metadata like that - although I do agree that it's going to be more instensive than a try/catch - so that's what I've gone with.

Thanks for your suggestions.

-D