I’ve been doing some work on CFEXECUTE for Lucee 7
https://luceeserver.atlassian.net/browse/LDEV-2015
https://luceeserver.atlassian.net/browse/LDEV-3667
component extends="org.lucee.cfml.test.LuceeTestCase" labels="execute" {
function beforeAll(){
variables.exe = isWindows() ? "cmd" : "bash";
variables.dir = getDirectoryFromPath(getCurrentTemplatePath());
}
function run() {
describe("cfexecute with onError and onProgress", function() {
beforeEach(function(currentSpec){
_logger("", true);
_logger(currentSpec, true);
});
it(title="cfexecute progress and error listeners", body=function() {
var args = isWindows() ? "/c dir Issue*.cfc" : "-c 'ls -lH Issue*.cfc'";
cfexecute(name=exe, timeout="1", arguments=args , directory=dir,
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https://luceeserver.atlassian.net/browse/LDEV-5499
component extends="org.lucee.cfml.test.LuceeTestCase" labels="execute" {
function run() {
describe("cfexecute", function() {
it(title="cfexecute environment windows", body=function() {
var env = {
"LUCEE": "rocks",
"LUCEE_LDEV5499_RANDOM": createGUID()
};
var exe = isWindows() ? "cmd" : "bash";
var args = isWindows() ? ["/c", "set"] : "-c 'set'";
cfexecute(name=exe, timeout="1", arguments=args , environment=env, variable="variables.result");
expect( find( env[ "LUCEE" ], result ) ).toBeGT( 0 ); // don't leak env
expect( find( env[ "LUCEE_LDEV5499_RANDOM" ], result ) ).toBeGT( 0 ); // don't leak env
});
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includes a new result attribute, like cfhttp { output: "", error: "", exitCode: 1 }
https://luceeserver.atlassian.net/browse/LDEV-5500
component extends="org.lucee.cfml.test.LuceeTestCase" labels="execute" {
function run() {
describe("cfexecute", function() {
it(title="cfexecute result variable with exit code", body=function() {
var exe = isWindows() ? "cmd" : "bash";
var args = isWindows() ? "/c exit /B 7" : "-c 'exit 7'";
cfexecute(name=exe, timeout="1", arguments=args , result="local.result");
expect( result.exitCode ).toBe( 7 );
expect( result ).toHaveKey( "output" );
expect( result ).toHaveKey( "error" );
});
it(title="cfexecute exitCode variable", body=function() {
var exe = isWindows() ? "cmd" : "bash";
var args = isWindows() ? "/c exit /B 7" : "-c 'exit 7'";
cfexecute(name=exe, timeout="1", arguments=args , variable="local.result", exitCodeVariable="local.exitCode");
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https://luceeserver.atlassian.net/browse/LDEV-5503
BTW Did you know you can already pass arguments as an array?
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I do not think everyone understands how much of a feature this is.
If you want an interactive ColdFusion shell, this allows for it.
WTG @Zackster
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glad you get it!
we’d need to add a listener accessing exposing the getOutputStream for the process to make it interactive
https://luceeserver.atlassian.net/browse/LDEV-5510
but this is already great for running a process (like a testsuite, build, backup, script, etc) and streaming the output back to the browser, rather than waiting for it to complete
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I agree… this is a huge feature. This would eliminate my need to run rabbitmq, which is what I’m using to send tasks to commandbox. Due to the limitations of cfexecute, I had no good way to hand off execution to an external program or process (in this case, commandbox task runners). Instead I had to build out what felt like a lot of infrastructure to do a very simple thing (tell another program to do something).
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Once you do, it would take Lucee CF to a whole other level of development and integration.
