With this change the code generation for method and property
references is modified to include branching logic in the
case of null safe dereferencing (?.). This is complicated
by the possible usage of primitives on the left hand side
of the dereference. To cope with this case primitives are
promoted to boxed types when this situation occurs enabling
null to be passed as a possible result.
Issue: SPR-16489
Without this fix the compiled version of elvis
actual behaved differently to the interpreted version
if the value being queried was an empty string. This
is now fixed. It also now correctly handles the
query value being a primitive and addresses the
findings of SPR-15192 where some type inferencing
logic was trying to be too clever, that code has
been deleted.
Issue: SPR-15192
(cherry picked from commit d41d28f)
For SPR-14863 we need to adjust the code generation for OpNE
to use !x.equals(y) rather than x!=y. There are also further
cases in the equalityCheck() code in Operator that were not
being handled in the compilation case (when comparators are
used for example). This latter issue also affects OpEQ.
Rather than add yet more bytecode generation, both OpNE and
OpEQ generateCode() methods have been simplified. The
generated code now delegates to equalityCheck() in Operator
which is exactly what the interpreted case does.
This ensures that the compiled code continues to behave just
like the interpreted case. It ensures changes to the interpreted
case are automatically picked up for the compiled case. It
makes the bytecode generation simpler.
The benefit of compilation of SpEL expressions is to avoid
slow reflective calls - that doesn't apply for a basic
(in)equality test so there is no need to go crazy in bytecode
gen.
Issue: SPR-14863
(cherry picked from commit 9000acd)
Prior to this commit the SpEL compiler would generate bad bytecode
if the left hand operand of an instanceof was a primitive or
if the right hand operand was a primitive type reference.
With the fixes primitives on the left hand side are now
correctly boxed and special handling is in place for when the
right hand side is a primitive type reference. Using a primitive
type reference on the right always causes the instanceof
check to return false.
Additionally a guard has been added such that compilation is
not allowed when the right hand side of an expression
is not a type reference. If it is, for example, a variable
reference that evaluates to a type reference then that
cannot be expressed in bytecode so compilation is not performed.
Issue: SPR-14250
Prior to this change SpEL did not have an syntactic
construct enabling easy access to a FactoryBean. With this
change it is now possible to use &foo in an expression when
the factory bean should be returned.
Issue: SPR-9511
Before this change the compilation of a method reference or property/field
access was not properly cleaning up the stack if compilation meant
calling a static method or accessing a static field. In these cases there
is no need for a target object on the stack and it should be removed if
present. For a simple expression it is harmless since the end result of
the expression is the thing on the top of the stack, but for nested
expressions if the inner expression suffered this issue, the outer
expression can find itself operating on the wrong element.
The particular issue covered the case of a static field access but this
fix (and associated tests) cover static method, property and field access.
Issue: SPR-13781
When the plus operator is used between strings in a SpEL
expression and that expression is compiled, it is
important to include a cast if computation of any of
the operands isn't obviously leaving strings on the
stack. Likewise if the stack contents are known to
be strings, a cast should not be included.
Issue: SPR-12426
Before this commit the object that #this would refer to in
nested expressions within projection/selection clauses was always
the root context object. This was incorrect as it should be the
element being projected/selected over. This commit introduces
a scope root context object which is set upon entering a new
scope (like when entering a projection or selection). Any
object. With this change this kind of expression now behaves:
where #this is the element of list1. Unqualified references
are also resolved against this scope root context object.
Issues: SPR-10417, SPR-12035, SPR-13055
This change provides support for map[NEW], map[new], map[T]
and map[t]. Prior to this change the 'new' and 't' had to
be quoted because they were keywords in SpEL for a constructor
reference and type reference respectively.
Issue: SPR-11783
Prior to this change the SpEL compiler would not compile mathematical
expressions where the operands were of differing types (e.g. int
and double). This required the expression writer to do the conversion
in the expression text. For example:
T(Integer).valueOf(someInt).doubleValue()/35d
With this commit the restriction is lifted and it is more like Java
so that you can simply do someInt/35d. The mathematical operators
affected are divide/plus/minus/multiply and modulus. This change
involved removing some guards so that the exitTypeDescriptor (the
trigger for whether compilation is allowed) is set more frequently
and enhancing bytecode generation to perform more sophisticated
conversion/coercion automatically.
Issue: SPR-12789
Without this change when the operands to an == are a mix of a
reference type and a primitive, the failure to box the primitive
would result in a verifyerror when the compiled code is loaded.
Issue: SPR-12557
Without this change the plus operator would fail to
include a CHECKCAST in generated bytecode when it
was compiled in cases where one of the operands
has a runtime type of String but a statically
declared type that was not String (i.e. Object).
Issue: SPR-12426
Before this change isWritable() could return true
for a badly formed expression. That is because the
decision about whether something is writable was made
based on the node type rather than whether the node
represented something that could actually be resolved
to be a real thing. This change ensures a resolution
check is done and isWritable() should only return
true if a subsequent setValue() will succeed.
Issue: SPR-10610
