JSON

If you encode your structs or arrays to JSON in ColdFusion 10 you may see some strange and unexpected results happen. The reason is that ColdFusion is a type-less language and don't know anything about the type of a variable. This means all your variables are strings very first. But you need to have valid values for boolean or integers or floats.

ColdFusion cannot do this for you out of the box by today. What ColdFusion does is really stupid and causes a lot of unexpected troubles as CF has no idea about the variable type. It simply tries to find out what type of variable the value may be and converts it to these type. As always with automatism's they must and will fail! The problems you may face are the following: