Return query from one CFC to another CFC

Question

I have a CFC called "order.cfc". Also in this app is a CFC
called "user.cfc".
In my order.cfc, one of the functions will setup and create a
new order for an existing user. The user ID is passed to the
function "createOrder" in order.cfc.
Instead of duplicating a function called "getUser" from
user.cfc, I figured I could pass the arguments.userID from
order.cfc over to the getUser function of user.cfc and get my query
result back:
<cfset thisCustomer =
createObject("component","user").getUser(arguments.userID) />
Obviously, I'm doing something wrong as I keep getting this
error message:
The value returned from function getUser() is not of type
query.
However, getUser does return a proper query data type when I
access that component directly and not from this other cfc.

Answer 1

quote:
Originally posted by:
Newsgroup User
What is the difference you and Dan perceive in using
<cfinvoke> over
createObject() (<cfset> really has nothing to do with
it).
Adam
Since you asked.
This is the line of code:
<cfset thisCustomer =
createObject("component","user").getUser(arguments.userID) />
My style is to be a bit more methodical. If I were going to
use createobject, I would do it like this:
MyObject = createObject("component","user");
thisCustomer = MyObject.getuser(arguments.userID);
If I wanted to do it in one line, or if I were only going to
call one function from that component, I'd use cfinvoke.
I'm simply not clever enough to try using cfset like that. I
had no idea it would work.