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ColdFusion 10 REST API: How to get cfthrow to return JSON with Camel Case properties

I'm using ColdFusion 10's new REST API. Let's say I throw this exception:

<cfthrow errorcode="400" message="Validation error." type="ValidationException" />

ColdFusion handles exceptions well and returns this JSON in the response body:

{"Message":"Validation error.","Type":"ValidationException"}

Notice that the properties 'Message' and 'Type' are generated in Pascal Case (upper case first letter). For this to be consistent with everything else in my API, I need the properties to be Came Case (lower case first letter), such as the following:

{"message":"Validation error.","type":"ValidationException"}

Any idea how I can do this? I'm looking for a way to tweak the way ColdFusion generates the JSON without manually doing a cfcatch and generating the JSON myself.

Solution

  • <cfcatch> it and return your own custom JSON string constructed from the exception's message and details.

    I don't think you can tweak it unless you have the source from Adobe. :)