Cfdirectory action="delete" with empty directory attribute defaults to the current directory

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I have noticed a strange behaviour with the cfdirectory:delete tag:

<cfdirectory action="delete" directory="" recurse="yes">

This deletes the directory from where the tag was executed. I haven’t yet tried whether this is also the case with DirectoryDelete().

Is this wanted? Or shouldn’t it rather throw an error? This makes it easy to delete your code.

Allan

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I would have expected it to throw an error that you didn’t provide a directory attribute. Not having a value seems pretty dangerous!

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I expected it to throw an error. I now call it the agent function. The code destroys itself after being executed once.

The reason I found this was because of an error in the database which caused the function that was supposed to return the path to return an empty string. I have now corrected this on both sides. But it would be nice if this probably unwanted behaviour could be corrected.

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yikes!!!

fixed in 6.2.4.16-SNAPSHOT and 7.0.1.87-SNAPSHOT

https://luceeserver.atlassian.net/browse/LDEV-5939

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