Thanks for this, very useful! Just in case anyone else wants to use this in CF7:

1) CF7 doesn’t have native JSON de/serialization, so download and install this:

http://jsonutil.riaforge.org/

2) Change line 351 of bitly.cfc from

<cfset var stuOAuthResponse = {} />

to

<cfset var stuOAuthResponse = StructNew() />

3) Assuming you’ve installed the JSONUtil CFC in the same dir as bitly.cfc, change the handleReturnFormat() method’s json case from this:

<cfcase value="json">
<cfif getParse()>
<cfreturn DeserializeJSON(arguments.data) />
<cfelse>
<cfreturn serializeJSON(DeserializeJSON(arguments.data)) />
</cfif>
</cfcase>

to this:

<cfcase value="json">
<cfset JSONUtils = createObject('component','JSONUtil')> <!--- change as needed --->
<cfif getParse()>
<cfreturn JSONUtils.deserializeFromJSON(arguments.data) />
<cfelse>
<cfreturn JSONUtils.serializeToJSON(JSONUtils.deserializeFromJSON(arguments.data)) />
</cfif>
</cfcase>

Hope this helps someone!

Thanks so much for this. I got it working quickly except for one thing that I probably should have figured out sooner – URL encoding. You may want to build this in to auto encode the longUrl string. I couldn’t figure out why bit.ly kept ignoring all but the first URL variable!

I couldn’t figure out how best to update your CFC so I just encoded the URL before passing it in.

Thanks again,

Which version of ColdFusion are you running?

I’ve just found this wrapper and am trying to get it to work. I’m using Marc’s example above: #shorten.results['http://www.google4games.com'].shortUrl#

but I’m getting Variable SHORTEN is undefined.

Any idea what could be wrong?

glad you got it working. The apostrophes are necessary as you are referencing the literal string, whereas in the above example I was calling the variable instead.

Both the same and both get the result at the end of the day.

Happy ‘bit.ly’-ing

#shorten.results['http://www.google4games.com'].shortUrl#

So, the trick is in using the [' anyUrl '] apostrofes and brackets.

thanks for the comment; always nice to hear when someone is using the wrappers

There are a few ways to access the struct within the results:

1. If you pass the URL into the shorten() method as a variable, then use that variable again to access the struct like so:

shorten.results[urlString].shortUrl

2. a slightly longer method, but using structFindKey() you can also access the data, bypassing the lengthy and unfriendly URL:

structFindKey(shorten.results, ‘shortUrl’)[1].owner.shortUrl

I do have a question: in the bit.ly shorten response above, how do i reference ( i mean: use it, show on screen, put in db) the shortened url?

I prefer using dot notation to reference API responses, problem here is the url (in your example scoth-on-the-rocks.co.uk) which is being used as a ‘structkey’ (or key-name, don’t know how its called) so dot notation becomes a problem (because of the backslashes, which break dot-notation).

This is probably very simple todo, any advice appreciated.

I actually noticed your project shortly after I’d submitted mine. Great job!
Would love to collaborate on combining the two if possible.