Lucee Tag Reference
Tag <CFDUMP>
Outputs the elements, variables and values of most kinds of CFML objects. Useful for debugging. You can display the contents of simple and complex variables, objects, components, user-defined functions, and other elements.
Body
This tag may have a body.
Example
<cfDump [abort="boolean"] [async="boolean"] [eval="any"] [expand="boolean"] [export="boolean"] [format="string"] [hide="string"] [keys="number"] [label="string"] [metainfo="boolean"] [output="string"] [show="string"] [showudfs="boolean"] [styles="struct"] [top="number"] [var="any"]> [</cfDump>]
Attributes
The attributes for this tag are fixed. Except for the following attributes no other attributes are allowed.
Name | Type | Required | Description |
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abort | boolean | No | stops further processing of request. |
async | boolean | No | if true and output is not to browser, Lucee builds the output in a new thread that runs in parallel to the thread that called the dump. please note that if the calling thread modifies the data before the dump takes place, it is possible that the dump will show the modified data. |
eval | any | No | name of the variable to display, also used as label, when no label defined. |
expand | boolean | No | expands views |
export | boolean | No | You can export the serialised dump with this function. |
format | string | No | specify the output format of the dump, the following formats are available by default:
You can use your custom style by creating a corresponding file in the lucee/dump/skins folder. Check the folder for examples. |
hide | string | No | hide column or keys. |
keys | number | No | For a structure, number of keys to display. |
label | string | No | header for the dump output. |
metainfo | boolean | No | Includes information about the query in the cfdump results. |
output | string | No | Where to send the results:
|
show | string | No | show column or keys. |
showudfs | boolean | No | show UDFs in cfdump output. |
styles | struct | No | You can override styles in Application.cfc by settings this.tag.dump to a struct with styles. |
top | number | No | The number of rows to display. |
var | any | No | Variable to display. Enclose a variable name in pound signs. |