Structs had been an Integral part of ColdFusion Markup Language. Using Structs we can define complex Objects and use it as such for complex operations. There have been so many functions that have been exposed for creating/manipulating and validating the Struct Objects.

ColdFusion has two types of Structs as follows:

• Normal Structs
• Ordered Structs

With Project Stratus (ColdFusion 2021) release, we are adding a capability for preserving the keys of Structs to avoid case-sensitivity issues.

A little bit background around the need comes from Project Stratus release which has so many Cloud related features and many of these features and functionality require the data and configuration to be stored in the form of Structs.

Earlier a developer has to use the Preserve case for Struct keys for Serialization setting in the admin to control the way in which whether the Struct Keys case needs to be preserved or not?

To avoid all this kind of configuration while writing some new code, a developer can use the case sensitive Structs, which automatically takes care of preserving the case of Struct Keys.

Lets go into the details of how to define a case sensitive structs:

Syntax:

 

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check the order of Insertion as well case-sensitivity

matters here.

 

Lets take an example to check how we can use this function to get the required information.