CFTRY |
Description Used with one or more cfcatch tags. Together, they catch and process exceptions in ColdFusion pages. Exceptions are events that disrupt the normal flow of instructions in a ColdFusion page, such as failed database operations, missing include files, and developer-specified events.
Category Exception handling tags
Syntax
    <cftry>
       Code that might throw an exception
       One or more cfcatch blocks
    </cftry>
See also cfcatch, cferror, cfrethrow, cfthrow, onError; Chapter 14, "Handling Errors" in ColdFusion MX Developer's Guide
History ColdFusion MX: Changed cfscript to include try and catch statements that are equivalent to the cftry and cfcatch tags.
Usage Within a cftry block, put the code that might throw an exception, followed by one ore more cfcatch tags that catch and process exceptions. This tag requires an end tag.
Example
    <!--- cftry example, using TagContext to display the tag stack. --->
    <h3>cftry Example</h3>
    <!--- Open a cftry block. --->
    <cftry>
       <!--- Note misspelled tablename "employees" as "employeeas". --->
       <cfquery name = "TestQuery" dataSource = "cfdocexamples">
          SELECT *
          FROM EMPLOYEEAS
       </cfquery>

       <!--- <p>... other processing goes here --->
       <!--- specify the type of error for which we search --->
       <cfcatch type = "Database">
       <!--- the message to display --->
          <h3>You've Thrown a Database <b>Error</b></h3>
          <cfoutput>
             <!--- and the diagnostic message from the ColdFusion server --->
             <p>#cfcatch.message#</p>
             <p>Caught an exception, type = #CFCATCH.TYPE# </p>
             <p>The contents of the tag stack are:</p>
             <cfloop index = i from = 1
                   to = #ArrayLen(CFCATCH.TAGCONTEXT)#>
                <cfset sCurrent = #CFCATCH.TAGCONTEXT[i]#>
                <br>#i# #sCurrent["ID"]#
                   (#sCurrent["LINE"]#,#sCurrent["COLUMN"]#)
                   #sCurrent["TEMPLATE"]#
             </cfloop>
          </cfoutput>
       </cfcatch>
    </cftry>