Is it cold in here or is it just me? ColdFire RC1 Released

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Posted in Development, ColdFusion | Posted on 03-13-2007 | 5,040 views

The title says it all. Get the bits from RIAForge:

http://coldfire.riaforge.org

The docs suck - but are probably better than most OS projects out there. ;) Speaking of OS - the code for the extension itself will be released. (Am I cheating by releasing just the binary? Probably - but I run the site so I'll abuse my power.) Edited: Adam just let me know - the XPI format is a zip style format, so all the code is in there. So I'm not cheating. Great.

Enjoy. (And yes, both Podman and I have wishlists. ;)

Oh - and there is a bug tracker at the RIAForge site - so please file any bugs you may find, or add suggestions. Do not suggest anything currently in the default debugging template - since I will be adding everything overtime anyway.

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Marcos Placona said on 03-13-2007 at 11:12 AM #
	You're great Ray!

Dave Ferguson said on 03-13-2007 at 11:20 AM #
	Great work. This is going to be very useful. I did find a bug however. I reported it on riaforge. --Dave

Raymond Camden said on 03-13-2007 at 11:47 AM #
	@Marcus - Don't forget Adam as well. We are a team. :) @Dave - I'll check it out.

Will said on 03-13-2007 at 12:15 PM #

I'm pretty sure I did everything correctly but now whenever I try to go to any sites on my server, I get nothing.. nothing in Firebug and nothing in Firefox. It says the page finished loading but doesn't go anywhere.

I even restarted CF, restarted firefox. The CF tab shows up in Firebug just nothing happens. But if I switch the dropdown back to classic, my debug shows up and the page loads. Any ideas?

Raymond Camden said on 03-13-2007 at 12:22 PM #
	In Firebug, go to HTML/Net, and look at the headers. See if you see the coldfire header. It is a big xml packet.

Will said on 03-13-2007 at 12:29 PM #
	Nada... it looks like nothing is making it to Firebug. I started from a fresh window, hit the IP, it finishes loading... the request even shows up on the "Net" tab, but nothing else shows up in Firebug.

Raymond Camden said on 03-13-2007 at 12:34 PM #
	Can you fire up something like ServiceCapture and see if the header is coming back?

Mark W. Breneman said on 03-13-2007 at 12:34 PM #
	Ray, Adam, ColdFire So rocks. I have been looking for a solution to have debug info at hand but not visible. Good Work.

Thomas Messier said on 03-13-2007 at 12:39 PM #

I have a weird problem, something tells me you'll probably know the reason. On some of my CF sites I'm getting an error because it can't find application.applicationName. Sure enough I tested it and the variable exists on some of my sites and not others. I thought it might be an application.cfc vs application.cfm error, but apparently not. I do have a this.name defined in my application.cfc but that's not doing anything for me. Any ideas?

Raymond Camden said on 03-13-2007 at 12:44 PM #
	If you cfdump application on the page where ColdFire is throwing the error, do you see applicationname there? I can't imagine why it would not exist if you have an Application scope.

Thomas Messier said on 03-13-2007 at 12:55 PM #
	No, it's not there. Don't worry about it, you've done your part, I'll do mine and try to debug this. Just wanted to see if it wasn't something obvious I just didn't know about. Thanks and I'll post something here if I figure it out.

Pete Freitag said on 03-13-2007 at 1:08 PM #
	What a great idea, thanks!

Jim Prist said on 03-13-2007 at 1:20 PM #

I'm getting weird behavior too:

I installed per the instructions.

I can hit a very simple CF page and it works.

Trying to hit the Mach-II application I'm currently working on gives strange results. When I enter the URL the browser refreshes but doesn't actually appear to do anything. It remains on the same page.

I have a page setup to clear my application and session scopes - when I hit that directory - I get:

Application and Session Scope Cleared!
500 Element APPLICATIONNAME is undefined in APPLICATION.
Element APPLICATIONNAME is undefined in APPLICATION.

And the page title reads "JRun Servlet Error"

But if I then go back and try to access the homepage - it again goes nowhere.

Now the question is "how do I uninstall" because now I can't do anything :)

Jim Priest said on 03-13-2007 at 1:25 PM #
	FWIW - Setting the template back to classic.cfm allows things to work again without uninstalling anything...

Thomas Messier said on 03-13-2007 at 1:35 PM #
	OK, figured out the "500 Element APPLICATIONNAME is undefined in APPLICATION" error. Doing StructClear(application) is apparently a big no-no, it'll clear the applicationName variable. You have to remove that code from wherever your app initializes and then restart your CF server, things will work fine.

Raymond Camden said on 03-13-2007 at 1:42 PM #
	Cool. I will be updating CF to have a major try/catch so that it can report an error nicer.

Erki Erki Esken said on 03-13-2007 at 1:45 PM #
	Cool, worked just fine. But a few notes. You should really use X-Coldfire or similar header. HTTP spec says custom headers should start with X-. Also, at least HTTP request headers are limited in size (8kb by default in Apache). I wonder if putting big XML messages into HTTP reply header might cause problems with some browsers, web servers or proxies?

Ken Ford said on 03-13-2007 at 1:45 PM #
	ColdFire rocks! Great job Ray!

Erik-Jan Jaquet said on 03-13-2007 at 2:56 PM #
	When I open the coldfire.xpi file, nothing happens... I do not get prompted to restart firefox (2.0.0.2) or even get an hourglass to indicate something is happening? Anyone else experiencing this?

Erik-Jan Jaquet said on 03-13-2007 at 3:09 PM #
	Ok, I found myself a cure. File open does not work, but when I drag and drop the .xpi file in the browser window, it works. Great tool! I can finally use CF debug without the anger of my beautifull layout being corrupted! Thx!

DK said on 03-13-2007 at 3:30 PM #
	Ray, I get the same thing as Will. Everything seems ok on install etc then I get nothing but a white screen and nothing in firebug. I turn the debugging page back to classic from coldfire and it comes back up.

Damon Gentry said on 03-13-2007 at 4:52 PM #
	I installed Firebug and ColdFire as suggested. When I view pages, I can see Firebug info on HTML, CSS, DOM, NET, etc.., but nothing in the ColdFusion tab. Windows XP SP2, Firefox 2.0.0.1

David said on 03-13-2007 at 5:53 PM #
	I'm having trouble getting it to work on anything more than a simple one page script, tried with two completely different apps both written using contrasting custom frameworks, one using application.cfc and other not. both return a white blank page when i turn on coldfire template in debug, yet i can see coldfusion doing it's job in the terminal window... any ideas? firefox 2.0.0.2, mac intel

David said on 03-13-2007 at 6:04 PM #
	i just saw the open ticket for this issue on riaforge, cheers

Neil Middleton said on 03-14-2007 at 8:42 AM #
	So when's the version that fits into CFEclipse providing debugging straight into the IDE coming out then? ;)

Dan Davis said on 02-11-2008 at 4:29 PM #

Not sure if anyone is still having issues with Coldfire not showing up. I was, and finally figured it out! Everything was working, up until firebug was suppose to output the data. The content was in the header x-Coldfire.

It ended up being a setting within FireBug. Try this: Goto Net -> Then under options, make sure Disable Network Monitoring is OFF (unchecked). Refresh the page, and it should work. At least it worked for me.

Hope this helps someone! Coldfire Rocks!

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