QueryAddRow throwing error in Coldfusion Webservice - web-services

Question

I am facing a weird issue.
When I am consuming the below snippet of code as a webservice residing in a CF9 server I am getting the error "The value coldfusion.runtime.Struct cannot be converted to a number."
The call returns an array of structures. I would like to create a query from this array of structure. When I place this code as a standalone code in my local server(CF10) it works fine. But as soon i place it in the remote server to be invoked i get the error.
I almost pulled out my hair when I got the same error message even when I replaced the variable 'tempstruct' with a hard coded structure. As soon I remove the QueryAddRow I am able to return anything.
Any help is appreciated.
<cfset myquery=querynew("category,category_id,event_description","varchar,integer,varchar")>
<cfinvoke
webservice="http://199.99.99.999/vod_queries.cfc?wsdl"
method="getAllCategoryByResort"
returnvariable="arrAllSpaEvents"
refreshwsdl="true" >
<cfinvokeargument name="Resort" value="SRB" >
</cfinvoke>
<cfif arraylen(arrAllSpaEvents) GT 0>
<cfloop array="#arrAllSpaEvents#" index="cur_row">
<cfset tempstruct=StructNew()>
<cfset tempstruct.CATEGORY=cur_row.CATEGORY>
<cfset tempstruct.CATEGORY_ID=cur_row.CATEGORY_ID>
<cfset tempstruct.EVENT_DESCRIPTION=cur_row.EVENT_DESCRIPTION>
<cfset QueryAddRow(myquery,#tempstruct#)>
</cfloop>
</cfif>
<cfreturn myquery>

Answer 1

You almost got.
However, indeed you are using new CF10 overloading in CF9. What's more, if you were using CF10, it looks like you could stuff the whole top array in with looping like that.
But you can almost do the same thing. CF9 will take an array overload for the value.
Not quite as clean as CF10 but you do what you can.
Also, the extra # signs are superfluous.
Here is an example with something that your data might look like:
<cfscript> // I did this all in a cfscript block for simplicity
Your retrieved data might look something like this guessin from example
arrAllSpaEvents = [
{category='fun', category_id=1, event_description='massage'},
{category='work', category_id=2, event_description='spinning'},
{category='beauty', category_id=3, event_description='mani'},
{category='beauty', category_id=3, event_description='pedi'}
];
Create a more useful struct to build the query dynamically
s = {
category = {colType = 'varchar', colVals = []},
category_id = {colType = 'integer', colVals = []},
event_description = {colType = 'varchar', colVals = []}
};
This is looping the data to fill the colVals arrays
for(c = 1; c <= arrAllSpaEvents.size(); c++ ) {
for(k in arrAllSpaEvents[c]) {
s[k].colVals[c] = arrAllSpaEvents[c][k];
}
}
This is the short form of the same double loop above in a single line
for(c = 1; c <= arrAllSpaEvents.size(); c++ ) for(k in arrAllSpaEvents[c]) s[k].colVals[c] = arrAllSpaEvents[c][k];
Now build your query. Start with an empty query (pass in a blank);
q = queryNew('');
Then loop your struct and using the keys for the column names (for simplicity they are the same key)
for(k in s ) queryAddColumn(q,k,s[k].colType,s[k].colVals);
Verify your struct and query:
writedump(s);
writedump(q);
</cfscript>
I ran this in CF9 so should work fine for you.
This should get you going.