This commit revises the contribution for gh-25921 in the following ways.
- Use instanceof pattern matching
- Use List.of() and Map.of()
- Add missing @since tags
- Polish Javadoc
- Rename isNegativeNumber() to isNegativeNumberLiteral()
- Restructure InlineCollectionTests using @Nested, etc.
- Fix testListWithVariableNotCached() test: it previously set a SpEL
"variable" but tested a "property" in the root context object, which
effectively did not test anything.
- Introduce additional tests: listWithPropertyAccessIsNotCached(),
mapWithVariableIsNotCached(), and mapWithPropertyAccessIsNotCached().
Prior to this commit, it was unclear to users and third parties that it
is necessary to manually configure a StandardTypeLocator with a
specific ClassLoader to ensure that the SpEL expression parser is able
to reliably locate user types.
For example, the StandardBeanExpressionResolver in the spring-context
module configures a StandardTypeLocator using the bean ClassLoader of
the corresponding BeanFactory.
This commit improves the documentation to raise awareness of this fact.
Closes gh-26253
This commit adds support for inlined Kotlin value
class properties in SpEL by leveraging Kotlin
reflection instead of Java reflection broken
by the mangled method name.
Closes gh-30468
Java 12 introduced java.lang.Class#componentType() as a shortcut for
getComponentType().
Since we started using arrayType() in fe5560400c, this commit switches
to componentType() for consistent API usage style.
Prior to this commit, if a Spring Expression Language (SpEL) expression
contained indexed access to an object, the generated AST String
representation incorrectly included a dot ('.') before the index access.
For example, 'property[0]' had a generated AST string representation of
'property.[0]'.
This commit addresses this by reworking the logic in
CompoundExpression.toStringAST().
Closes gh-30610
Prior to this commit, only the letters 'A' - 'Z' (ignoring case) were
supported in identifiers (i.e., property, field, and variable names).
This known (yet undocumented) limitation prevented the use of characters
such as 'ü', 'ñ', 'é' as well as letters from other character sets such
as Chinese, Japanese, Cyrillic, etc.
This commit lifts that restriction by delegating to Character.isLetter()
to determine if a character in a SpEL expression is a letter.
Closes gh-30580
Prior to this commit, when an unsupported character such as "ü" was
encountered in a SpEL expression, the error message was:
Cannot handle (252) 'ü'
With this commit, the error message is now similar to:
Unsupported character 'ü' (252) encountered at position 5 in expression.
See gh-30580
Closes gh-30602
This commit adds support for MethodHandles in SpEL, using the same
syntax as user-defined functions (which also covers reflective Methods).
The most benefit is expected with handles that capture a static method
with no arguments, or with fully bound handles (where all the arguments
have been bound, including a target instance as first bound argument
if necessary). Partially bound MethodHandle should also be supported.
A best effort approach is taken to detect varargs as there is no API
support to determine if an argument is a vararg or an explicit array,
unlike with Method. Argument conversions are also applied. Finally,
array repacking is not always necessary with varargs so it is only
performed when the vararg is the sole argument to the invoked method.
See gh-27099
Closes gh-30045
This commit improves both the javadoc and the reference guide section on
the Elvis SpEL operator to clarify that in addition to `null` objects,
empty Strings also lead the operator to evaluate to its second operand.
The reference guide's advanced snippet is modified to use such an empty
String instead of `null` to make that behavior prominent with some code.
See gh-30318
Closes gh-30352
Prior to gh-30325, supplying a null reference for a SpEL expression was
effectively equivalent to supplying the String "null" as the
expression. Consequently, evaluation of a null reference expression
always evaluated to a null reference. However, that was accidental
rather than by design.
Due to the introduction of the checkExpressionLength(String) method in
InternalSpelExpressionParser (in conjunction with gh-30325), an attempt
to evaluate a null reference as a SpEL expression now results in a
NullPointerException.
To address both of these issues,
TemplateAwareExpressionParser.parseExpression() and
SpelExpressionParser.parseRaw() now reject null and empty SpEL
expressions.
Closes gh-30371
This commit introduces infrastructure to differentiate between
programmatic setting of a variable in an EvaluationContext versus the
assignment of a variable within a SpEL expression using the assignment
operator (=). In addition, this commit disables variable assignment
within expressions when using the SimpleEvaluationContext.
Closes gh-30326
