Strange behavior, objectid() method in component.cfc

So I was working on something OOP :-). And I am trying to use Hal Hellms BaseComponent.cfc that all CFCs that don't extend anything should extend. For the purpose of this post I reduced it to two methods:
<br /><cfcomponent displayname="BaseComponent" hint="I am the base class for all components"><br /><br /> <cfset variables.null = "|\| |_| |_ |_" /><br /> <cfset variables.instance = StructNew() /><br /> <cfset variables.objectID = CreateUUID() /><br /><br /> <cffunction name="init" access="public" output="false"><br /> <cfreturn this /><br /> </cffunction><br /> <br /> <cffunction name="objectID" access="public" returntype="string" output="false"><br /> <cfreturn variables.objectID /><br /> </cffunction><br /> <br /></cfcomponent><br />
The way I was using it is I included it into ColdFusion component.cfc that all CFCs extend by default:
<br /><cfinclude template="/common/vendor/basecomponent/BaseComponent.cfc"><br />
So I also make test CFC and a cfm page:
<br /><cfcomponent output="false"></cfcomponent><br />
<br /><cfscript><br />Obj = createObject("component","ObjectIdTest");<br /></cfscript><br /><cfdump var="#Obj#"><br />
When I run cfm file and expend the dump output I see following:



As you can see the objectid() method is missing.

Now I remove the include from component.cfc and make my test component extend BaseComponent
<br /><cfcomponent extends="common.vendor.basecomponent.BaseComponent" output="false"><br /></cfcomponent><br />
Run cfm again and get following:


Now objectid() method is seen in the dump.

Object collection class with iterator

So I added an iterator to my collection cfc. Several people blogged about using java iterator for coldfusion arrays and looks like Transfer uses those.

Here is an iterator method:
<br /><cffunction name="iterator" access="public" output="false" returntype="any"><br /> <cfscript><br /> var iterator = variables.container.Iterator();<br /> return iterator;<br /> </cfscript><br /></cffunction><br />
I also changed getBy() and removeBy() to use iterator:
<br /><cffunction name="getBy" access="public" output="false" returntype="Any"><br /> <cfargument name="property" type="String" required="true" /><br /> <cfargument name="value" type="Any" required="true" /><br /> <cfscript><br /> var i = 0; <br /> var o = '';<br /> var iterator = this.iterator();<br /> while(iterator.hasNext()) { <br /> o = iterator.next();<br /> if(isObject(o) and o.hasProperty(arguments.property) and o.get(arguments.property) is arguments.value) {<br /> return o;<br /> }<br /> }<br /> return null; <br /> </cfscript><br /></cffunction><br /><br /><cffunction name="removeBy" access="public" output="false" returntype="boolean"><br /> <cfargument name="property" type="String" required="true" /><br /> <cfargument name="value" type="Any" required="true" /><br /> <cfscript><br /> var i = 0; <br /> var o = '';<br /> var iterator = this.iterator();<br /> while(iterator.hasNext()) { <br /> o = iterator.next();<br /> if(isObject(o) and o.hasProperty(arguments.property) and o.get(arguments.property) is arguments.value) {<br /> iterator.remove();;<br /> return true;<br /> }<br /> }<br /> return false;<br /> </cfscript><br /></cffunction><br />
Also have to plug MXUnit. Using it made refactoring like that above, much more enjoyable.

Object collection class

This is collection cfc that's largely based on one I found here.

I added couple of methods, getBy and removeBy that I think will be helpful for working with collection of objects. Each takes a property and a value of that property as arguments, then we try to match those to one of the objects in the collection.

Now I need an Iterator for this.