railo application.cfc this.mappings not working

Question

i am using the latest version of railo, and am trying to get the per-application mappings to work. this is what i am doing:

Answer 1

Your syntax is OK, I've just did the same for application deep in directories tree and it works fine.

however, my components cannot be accessed by this mapping,

What is exact error? "invalid component definition, can't find myapp.xyz"?

Are your cfm and cfc in the same directory? (this is basically what you are trying to do)

and when i do a cfdump on the application variable in my code, it will show that the "applicationname" is set to "MyApp", but nothing shows for the mappings.

You wont see this info by dumping the application scope. Only option is to use Application.cfc as usual cfc.

<cfset app = CreateObject("component",  "application") />
<cfdump var="#app#">

EDIT. You have two solutions here.

Define mapping like this, so path will be calculated for Application.cfc:

<cfset this.mappings["/myapp2"] = getDirectoryFromPath(getCurrentTemplatePath())>

Or change component path like this:

<cfset MyObject = CreateObject("component",  "myapp.data.MyObject") />

Problem is in differences between paths returned by ExpandPath and getCurrentTemplatePath().

Answer 2

Update: As Sergii pointed out, the syntax is valid, but the net effect is the same.

Try using this syntax

<cfcomponent>
    <cfset THIS.Name = "MyApp">
    <cfset THIS.mappings = { "/myapp" = ExpandPath(".") } >
</cfcomponent>