Lucee Tag Reference

<cfinvoke>

Invokes component methods from within a page or component. You use this tag to reference a WSDL file and consume a web service from within a block of CFML code.

Body

This tag may have a body.

Example

<cfinvoke
[component=any]
[method=string]
[password=string]
[proxypassword=string]
[proxyport=number]
[proxyserver=string]
[proxyuser=string]
[returnvariable=string]
[serviceport=string]
[timeout=number]
[username=string]
[webservice=string] ... >
[</cfinvoke>]

This tag is also supported within cfscript

<cfscript>
invoke
[component=any]
[method=string]
[password=string]
[proxypassword=string]
[proxyport=number]
[proxyserver=string]
[proxyuser=string]
[returnvariable=string]
[serviceport=string]
[timeout=number]
[username=string]
[webservice=string]... {
[...]
}
</cfscript>

Attributes

This tag has a fixed definition of attributes (see below). In addition it allows to use any additional attribute

Name	Type	Required	Description
component	any	No	String or component object; a reference to a component, or component to instantiate.
method	string	No	Name of a method. For a web service, the name of an operation.
password	string	No	Overrides password specified in Administrator > Web Services
proxypassword	string	No	The user's password on the proxy server.
proxyport	number	No	The port to use on The proxy server.
proxyserver	string	No	The proxy server required to access the webservice URL.
proxyuser	string	No	The user ID to send to the proxy server.
returnvariable	string	No	Name of a variable for the invocation result.
serviceport	string	No	The port name for the web service. This value is case-sensitive and corresponds to the port element's name attribute under the service element. Specify this attribute if the web service contains multiple ports. Default: first port found in the WSDL.
timeout	number	No	The timeout for the web service request, in seconds
username	string	No	Overrides username specified in Administrator > Web Services
webservice	string	No	The URL of the WSDL file for the web service.