I developed code that gets and sets theme settings from a .ini file. I am using getProfileString and setProfile string to set the various theme properties in a ColdFusion component on the server side. Depending upon the approach that I use, the datatypes that are being returned to the client are different. For example, if I invoke the function from a .cfm page, the values that I am getting are stored in strings, and are being returned as either a 'yes' or 'no'. However, if I invoke the same function from ajax, the value is being returned as a boolean value, i.e. true or false. The component and the method are the same, but the evaluation of the return value is different between ColdFusion and jQuery. Be aware that if you don't declare and set the datatype of the structure elements independently; the datatypes can be interpreted differently depending upon where they are being evaluated.

Late at night, I put a function inside a .cfm template and tried to consume it from Ajax, but I received a json parse error that was displayed in Chrome's console when trying to invoke a function within a .cfm page. I had forgot that ajax functions should not be consuming a .cfm page, and placed the exact same function within a component with a .cfc extension, and the issue went away. When a function is within a component with the access remote argument, ColdFusion will autogenerate a web services stub, but it does not do this within a .cfm page. If you receive a json parse error using logic that is known to create a valid json object within a .cfm page, try putting the same code in a .cfc component and consume it there. It may solve this parse error for you as well. The code below has a 'proxyControllerUrl' variable that was initially using a template with a .cfm extension, and it failed. However, when I put the same function within a .cfc extension, it worked.