Javascript / Jquery returns cfquery value of 'no' as false and 'yes' as true

Question

I have an interesting problem. I Have a jquery ajax command to get data from a MySQL table (code to follow) When i then build my table values that should be yes are now true and

Answer 1

Hi All the comment Ageax was correct. Its a ColdFusion bug, I just added white space then trim the value later and it worked perfectly.

Thanks very much

Answer 2

You didn't mention which version of CF you're using, but ... there's one other option for queries in ColdFusion 2016+. Using the new query serialization settings in your Application.cfc will preserve the yes/no values as strings AND convert the query into a jQuery compatible array of structures - automatically. Obviously being application level settings, they'll apply to all queries within the application.

• serialization.serializeQueryAs = "struct" - Automatically serialize all queries in the application as an array of structures (instead of the weird format CF uses by default).

• serialization.preserveCaseForQueryColumn = true - Preserve the case of query column names (instead of converting everything to upper case).

---

Application.cfc

component {
    this.name = "Your_Application_Name_Here";
    this.serialization.serializeQueryAs = "struct";
    this.serialization.preserveCaseForQueryColumn = true;
}

DemoComponent.cfc

<cfcomponent>
    <cffunction name="getData" access="remote" returntype="query">

    <!--- DEMO query. Note, manual queries MUST include column data types --->
    <cfset local.getItems = QueryNew("onceoff,exvat"
                              , "varchar,varchar"
                              , [{exvat : "yes",onceoff : "no"}]
                           )>

        <cfreturn local.getItems>
    </cffunction>   
</cfcomponent>

Result

[{"onceoff":"no","exvat":"yes"}]