One of the annoying things about cfscript is it’s lack of support for a lot of CFML tags.
<cfdump> and <cfabort> are 2 tags I always use in development, especially for debugging. A way to use this functionality is to create a UDF to do these types of functions.
For example
<cffunction name="dump" access="public" output="true" returntype="struct">
<cfargument name="arg" />
<cfdump var="#arg#" />
</cffunction>
<cffunction name="abort" access="public" output="false" returntype="void">
<cfabort />
</cffunction>
This function can be stored in a simple utilities component and stored in application scope, that way you can call it from anywhere.
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Another way to dump inside a cfscript block is:
CreateObject(“component”, “cfide.adminapi.base”).dump(yourVariable);