fusebox 5.5 noxml folder name problems

Question

I am having trouble with fusebox 5.5 noxml and circuits...

I have a structure that looks like this.

controller
 app.cfc
model
 main
  act_comm_main.cfm
 monkey
  act_something_else.cfm
view
 main
  dsp_comm_main.cfm
 monkey
  dsp_somethingElse.cfm

In the app.cfc file I have this:

<cffunction name="postfuseaction">
    <cfargument name="myFusebox" />
    <cfargument name="event" />

    <!--- do the layout --->
    <cfset myFusebox.do( action="layout.lay_template" ) />

</cffunction>

<cffunction name="main">
    <cfargument name="myFusebox" />
    <cfargument name="event" />

    <!--- do model fuse --->
    <cfset myFusebox.do( action="moneky.act_somethingElse" ) />

    <!--- do model fuse --->
    <cfset myFusebox.do( action="main.act_comm_main" ) />

    <!--- do display fuse and set content variable body --->
    <cfset myFusebox.do( action="main.dsp_comm_main", contentvariable="body" ) />

</cffunction>

</cfcomponent>

This doesn't work. but if I change it to have the view folder named: mainPages so and then change the cfset myFusebox. do to look at mainPages.dsp_comm_main (it comes up) but in the instance above it give me this error:

undefined Fuseaction

You specified a Fuseaction of dsp_comm_main which is not defined in Circuit main.

I remove the parsed files and let fusebox rebuild but I still get this error.

So I know how to work around it by naming my directories different between the model and view folders but why is this happening and what can I do to get to resolve same named directories across the model view?

Answer 1

This is because in Fusebox models and views are just a convention to implement MVC. Technically they just a circuits, explicit or implicit, doesn't matter.

Circuit name must be unique within the application, so you have to name the folders differently.

Personaly I've used naming like vMain/mMain, vMonkey/mMonkey for more complex apps with many view circuits. For simpler apps it could be enough to have just layout and display view circuits, this way models can be named without prefix.