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invoke

Invokes an object method and returns the result of the invoked method.

invoke(instance, methodName [, arguments])

returns any

Argument Reference

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
instance	string	Yes		Name or instance of a CFC or an instance of a Java, .NET, COM or CORBA object to instantiate. For a CFC, it can be an empty string when invoking a method within the same ColdFusion page or component.
methodname	string	Yes		The name of the method (or operation for webservice) to invoke.
arguments	any	No		An array of positional arguments or a struct of named arguments to pass into the method.

Invoke a Java Method

Invokes the size method on a new HashMap object, which should return 0

invoke(createObject("java", "java.util.HashMap"), "size")

Expected Result: 0

Invoke a method on a component

Invokes the method named ‘test’ on the component Test.cfc with one parameter

obj = createObject("component", "Test");
invoke(obj, "test", {parameter="Test Data"});

Invoke a method on a webservice with one argument

Invokes the method named ‘test’ on the webservice Test.cfc with one argument

obj = createObject("webservice", "https://example.com/test.cfc?wsdl");
invoke(obj, "test", {argument1="Test Data"});

Invoke a method on a webservice with multiple arguments

Invokes the method named ‘test’ on the webservice Test.cfc with multiple arguments

obj = createObject("webservice", "https://example.com/test.cfc?wsdl");
invoke(obj, "test", {argument1="Test Data", argument2="More Data", argument3="Still More Data"});

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