Populate coldfusion bean from query

I thought of a nice way to populate coldfusion beans from a query. It might be obvious, but we have code all over in our mach-ii application that explicitly calls setters on a bean after query. So following method got added to BaseComponent.cfc (thanks Hal Helms). It's not checking anything so the burden is on query to have the right data.

<br /><cffunction name="setInstanceFromQuery" access="public" returntype="VOID" output="false"><br /> <cfargument name="data" required="true" type="query" /><br /> <cfscript><br /> var i = 0; <br /> var q = arguments.data;<br /> var l = listToArray(q.columnList);<br /> if(q.recordCount gt 0) {<br /> for (i=1; i LTE arrayLen(l); i=i+1) {<br /> evaluate('set#l[i]#(q[l[i]][1])');<br /> }<br /> }<br /> </cfscript><br /></cffunction><br />
If you use generic setter the line:
<br />evaluate('set#l[i]#(q[l[i]][1])');<br />
can be replaced with:
<br />set(l[i],(q[l[i]][1]));<br />

So this allows me to do something like this:
<br /><!--- this method could be in SomeBeanService ---><br /><cffunction name="getSomeBeanByID" access="public" returntype="SomeBean" output="false"><br /> <cfargument name="id" type="string" required="true" /><br /> <cfscript><br /> var SomeBean = createObject("component","SomeBean").init();<br /> var beanData = getSomeBeanGateway().getSomeBeanByID(arguments.id);<br /> SomeBean.setInstanceFromQuery(beanData);<br /> return SomeBean;<br /> </cfscript><br /></cffunction><br />