Yesterday I posted a demo of a UDF that I had been working on to convert HTML (via a URL or raw HTML) to an image. The UDF works OK, but to be honest it's not all that great. Let me quickly explain the process (as some had guessed in the comments on that post yesterday).
I'm putting the finishing touches on my PowerPoint utils component when I came across a weird Java error. I've seen it before and it may very well be my lack of Java experience that is causing my lack of understanding here.
Say you have a Java method getFoo() that is expected to return a string. I've found that sometimes ColdFusion doesn't properly handle Java nulls so when you try to set a value you'll get something like so when trying to reference it:
It seems that ColdFusion simply chokes on it. I came up with a hacky fix by passing the value to another method which properly returns an empty string:
Seems a bit hacky but it works. If someone can shed a little more light on the subject I'd appreciate it.
