Problems with directoryList() function

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According to both the Lucee and ACF docs, the arguments to directoryList are these:

DirectoryList( path [, recurse [, listInfo [, filter [, sort [, type ] ] ] ] ] )

However…

  • When I pass type (I want directories only), I get the error “too many Attributes in function [DIRECTORYLIST]”
  • The sort argument doesn’t seem to do anything; listing is by name ascending, even if I pass “datelastmodified dec”, which is what I actually want.

Am I missing something obvious, or should I file a bug?

I’m running a CommandBox instance of Lucee 4.5.5.006.

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Hi Dave

  1. Support for the type argument was only added in Lucee 5:

https://luceeserver.atlassian.net/browse/LDEV-972

  1. The sort argument seems to work for me on both 4.5.5.006 and 5.2.3.35:
path = getDirectoryFromPath( getCurrentTemplatePath() );
x = DirectoryList( path, false, "query", "*", "dateLastModified DESC" );
dump( x );

There’s a typo in the string you posted though: "“datelastmodified dec”

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I’ve submitted a change to CFDocs to flag that the type argument requires Lucee 5.

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Thanks for your reply Julian.

Upgraded to latest Lucee available via CommandBox, and now the type argument works, thanks for the heads-up.

However, the ‘dec’ part of the sort argument is still ignored, results are always ascending. That’s with this code:

directoryList(_path, 0, "query", "", "dateLastModified dec", "dir")

This is Lucee 5.2.3.35 on Win 7 Pro 64. What am I missing here?

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You need DESC not DEC.

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