Using CFFILE in a CFC Nightmare

Question

I know this has been asked, but I cannot seem to find the solution that works.

I have a CFM page that uses the following to pass data to a CFC

<cfinvoke 
component="common.cfcs.geotrails"
method="UpdateGeoTrail">
<cfinvokeargument name="title" value="#form.title#"/>
<cfinvokeargument name="Description_short" value="#form.Description_short#"/>
<cfinvokeargument name="Description" value="#form.description#"/>
<cfinvokeargument name="GTID" value="#form.gtid#"/>
<cfinvokeargument name="CatID" value="#form.catid#"/>
<cfif structKeyExists(form,"fileUpload") and len(form.fileUpload)>
<cfinvokeargument name="fileUpload" value="#form.fileUpload#"/>
</cfif>
</cfinvoke>

In the CFC that receives the data, I followed the direction at the Adobe Cookbook

<cffunction name="UpdateGeoTrail" access="public" returntype="void">
<cfargument name="title" type="string" required="yes">
<cfargument name="Description_short" type="string" required="yes">
<cfargument name="Description" type="string" required="yes">
<cfargument name="GTID" type="numeric" required="yes">
<cfargument name="CatID" type="numeric" required="yes">
<cfargument name="fileUpload" type="string" required="no">

<!--- IF THE IMAGE HAS BEEN UPLOADED --->
<!--- set the full path to the images folder --->
<cfif isdefined("arguments.fileUpload") AND len(arguments.fileUpload)>
<cfset tempmediapath = "#expandPath('/')#media/gtimages/temp/">
<cfset mediapath = "#expandPath('/')#media/gtimages/">

<cfset var cffile = "">
<cffile action="upload"
filefield="#ARGUMENTS.fileUpload#"
destination="#TempMediaPath#"
nameconflict="makeunique">
...

But I still get the dreaded error message...

"The form field /data/disk01/opt/coldfusion9/runtime/servers/coldfusion/SERVER-INF/temp/wwwroot-tmp/neotmp5003883285207133802.tmp did not contain a file."

If I follow the directions at StackExchange ( CFFILE - Uploading a file using a component )

<cffile action="upload"
filefield="fileUpload"
destination="#TempMediaPath#"
nameconflict="makeunique">

It passes without error, but a <CFDUMP> shows: [empty string].

What am I missing.

Thanks.

Phil

Actually, the Cookbook entry isn't wrong. It says you need to pass in the name of a form field, not the value of a form field. Your cfinvoke is doing it wrong. Change value="#form.fileUpload#" to value="form.fileUpload" — Raymond Camden, Dec 10 '12 at 15:10
You should var scope tempmediapath and mediapath. And rather than var scope the built-in `cffile` scope, I think I'd rather use the `result` attribute of cffile to specify a var-scoped struct of my own. — duncan, Dec 10 '12 at 15:17
Ray.. I tried what you suggested without success. Maybe I just got my coding crossed staring at it for so long. — SiriusPhil, Dec 10 '12 at 19:18
Can you post an updated version of your code? Sorry I didn't see responses before. — Raymond Camden, Dec 20 '12 at 13:20

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 10 '12 at 17:18

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I know it isn't part of your cfc but did you make sure that the form has the enctype set?

<cfform action="/upload.cfm" enctype="multipart/form-data">

answered Dec 10 '12 at 17:18

Lance

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 10 '12 at 19:20

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By removing the cffile scope, I was able to get it to work.

answered Dec 10 '12 at 19:20

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Using CFFILE in a CFC Nightmare

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