Objective Bias

Allright, so I've always known that to instantiate a component using the createObject function, you have to provide the dot-delimited path of the component. Like so:

<cfset myObject = createObject("component","path.to.component") />

Today, I was looking through the ColdBox framework documentation and I came upon this line of code:

var oConfigService = CreateObject("component",getSetting('AppMapping') & ".model.ConfigService").init(getDatasource('myDSN'));

I thought that this couldn't be right because the getSetting("AppMapping") gives you the slash-delimited path from the root of your site to your app. So I tested out the code myself expecting to get an error and guess what -- it worked!

So then I thought I'd try just hard-coding the slash-path that is returned by getSetting("AppMapping"):

var oConfigService = CreateObject("component","path/to/app.model.ConfigService").init(getDatasource('myDSN'));

It still worked. Even though now the path was a combination of slashes and dots. So I went ahead and just hardcoded all slashes.

var oConfigService = CreateObject("component","path/to/app/model/ConfigService").init(getDatasource('myDSN'));

You guessed it -- works fine!

So it seems like using dots, slashes, or a combination of the two works. Is anyone else surprised by this besides me?

I read Joshua Cyr's memory lane blog post. For some reason, I decided to do a Google search on 'DBML' and I found this. How far we've come...