How can I stop Coldfusion from converting query column names to upper case?

Question

When I select data from a MySQL table using the cfquery tag in ColdFusion 8, the column names are all converted to uppercase even though I've stored them in camelCase in the database table. Is there a way to make ColdFusion respect the case of the column names?

The reason I'm asking is because I'm returning the query result as a JSON object and I don't want to use upper case property names on the JavaScript side as I reserve that naming convention for constants.

Answer 1

Use getMetaData on the query object. It returns an array of columns showing the same case you used in the query.

Answer 2

queryName.getMetaData().getColumnLabels()

return an array of query column label with original case from query