ASTsimpleVariableReference Error
Ever get this error with ColdFusion?
Error casting an object of type coldfusion.compiler.ASTsimpleVariableReference to an incompatible type. This usually indicates a programming error in Java, although it could also mean you have tried to use a foreign object in a different way than it was designed.
java.lang.ClassCastException: coldfusion.compiler.ASTsimpleVariableReference at coldfusion.compiler.StmtAssembler.createCFloopIndexVariable(StmtAssembler.java:2020) at coldfusion.compiler.StmtAssembler.cfloopList(StmtAssembler.java:1838) at coldfusion.compiler.StmtAssembler.cfloop(StmtAssembler.java:1687) at coldfusion.compiler.StmtAssembler.assembleStatement(StmtAssembler.java:284) at coldfusion.compiler.TemplateAssembler.assembleStatement(TemplateAssembler.java:238) at coldfusion.compiler.StmtAssembler.block(StmtAssembler.java:201) at coldfusion.compiler.TemplateAssembler.assemblePage(TemplateAssembler.java:200) at coldfusion.compiler.TemplateAssembler.assemble(TemplateAssembler.java:77) at coldfusion.compiler.NeoTranslator.translateJava(NeoTranslator.java:316) at coldfusion.compiler.NeoTranslator.translateJava(NeoTranslator.java:119) at coldfusion.runtime.TemplateClassLoader$1.fetch(TemplateClassLoader.java:310) at coldfusion.util.LruCache.get(LruCache.java:180) at coldfusion.runtime.TemplateClassLoader$TemplateCache.fetchSerial(TemplateClassLoader.java:254) at coldfusion.util.AbstractCache.fetch(AbstractCache.java:58) at coldfusion.util.SoftCache.get(SoftCache.java:81) at coldfusion.runtime.TemplateClassLoader.findClass(TemplateClassLoader.java:476) at coldfusion.filter.PathFilter.invoke(PathFilter.java:79) at coldfusion.filter.LicenseFilter.invoke(LicenseFilter.java:27) at coldfusion.filter.ExceptionFilter.invoke(ExceptionFilter.java:70) at coldfusion.filter.ClientScopePersistenceFilter.invoke(ClientScopePersistenceFilter.java:28) at coldfusion.filter.BrowserFilter.invoke(BrowserFilter.java:38) at coldfusion.filter.NoCacheFilter.invoke(NoCacheFilter.java:46) at coldfusion.filter.GlobalsFilter.invoke(GlobalsFilter.java:38) at coldfusion.filter.DatasourceFilter.invoke(DatasourceFilter.java:22) at coldfusion.CfmServlet.service(CfmServlet.java:175) at coldfusion.bootstrap.BootstrapServlet.service(BootstrapServlet.java:89) at jrun.servlet.FilterChain.doFilter(FilterChain.java:86) at coldfusion.monitor.event.MonitoringServletFilter.doFilter(MonitoringServletFilter.java:42) at coldfusion.bootstrap.BootstrapFilter.doFilter(BootstrapFilter.java:46) at jrun.servlet.FilterChain.doFilter(FilterChain.java:94) at jrun.servlet.FilterChain.service(FilterChain.java:101) at jrun.servlet.ServletInvoker.invoke(ServletInvoker.java:106) at jrun.servlet.JRunInvokerChain.invokeNext(JRunInvokerChain.java:42) at jrun.servlet.JRunRequestDispatcher.invoke(JRunRequestDispatcher.java:286) at jrun.servlet.ServletEngineService.dispatch(ServletEngineService.java:543) at jrun.servlet.jrpp.JRunProxyService.invokeRunnable(JRunProxyService.java:203) at jrunx.scheduler.ThreadPool$ThreadThrottle.invokeRunnable(ThreadPool.java:428) at jrunx.scheduler.WorkerThread.run(WorkerThread.java:66)
It is caused when you put a variable with pound signs where it is expecting a variable name. For example this code with throw this exception:
<cfloop list="#list#" item="#item#"></cfloop>
The #item#
should just be item
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