Web Distributed Data Exchange(WDDX) is an XML dialect for web services. It was the precursor to WSDL and SOAP.
Questions tagged [wddx]
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Coldfusion jQuery getJSON : Getting WDDX instead of JSON
I am using Brian Rinaldi's coldfusion function to convert a dotnet webservice dataset into a structure of queries. Each query is then returned to the client page as JSON to be used in a jQuery function.
The queries are valid query objects. However,…

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ColdFusion: Does anyone use WDDX?
I'm working on a ColdFusion site where data is stored in WDDX packets inside a database and it's a real pain. (I have no idea why the values aren't just stored in another table.)
I've not used WDDX before and the only documentation I can find about…

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cfc remote method result wrapped up in wddxpacket
When I return a string from my remote method from cfc. The returned string is wrapped up in a strange wddxpacket:
I tried to turn off the debugging output like this:
But it didn't work.

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How to WDDX ColdFusion struct and maintain pointers or recursion
I am using WDDX to to store a ColdFusion struct in a database, and I would like to maintain the pointers. Here's an example (sorry, the shorthand notation may be full of errors b/c I hardly ever use…

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Coldfusion onCFCRequest Changing Return Type of XML Into WDDX
My customer base is finally off Coldfusion 8 so now I can take advantage of Coldfusion 9's Application.cfc -> onCFCRequest event. I have a test scenario setup and my result is not what I'm expecting. I have a method that I call which produces a…

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Methods to automate ColdFusion Administrator settings
When working with a ColdFusion server you can access the CFIDE/administrator to set config values, which update the cfusion/lib/ xml files (e.g. neo-runtime.xml, neo-mail.xml, etc.)
I'd like to automate a deployment process that includes setting…

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Parse HTML stored as string in Database in ColdFusion
I have taken over this ColdFusion project and found that I need a value out of a database field that includes HTML. The field data looks like this (without the new lines):
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Where can I find a copy of the wddx.dtd?
I have a project that involves parsing wddx webservice responses. The DOM DocumentBuilder is throwing an exception that the XML is malformed as it does not reference a dtd. I inserted a DOCTYPE statement and now it is throwing an exception…

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CFML2WDDX Error ColdFusion 11
I am using CFM2WDDX to convert an array in CF11 but I am getting this error:
coldfusion.tagext.validation.WddxValidator$InvalidWddxPacketException:
Invalid WDDX packet..
I am using this code here:
getFileList.cfm

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how to use tag cfwddx in ColdFusion
I would like to send a ColdFusion structure to Javascript. In looking at how I might do this I found the cfwddx tag. It seems to get me partway there. I created a test program