[jira] [Commented] (JEXL-229) Introduce new syntax for class literals: Class and Type

["Henri Biestro (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Henri Biestro commented on JEXL-229:
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A set of use cases is missing. However and in general, I suspect a new syntax is not warranted. 
Can you give produce an example/test using a classp(...) or typep(...) function/functor in a namespace so what you're after is made clear?

> Introduce new syntax for class literals: Class<T> and Type<T>
> -------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: JEXL-229
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JEXL-229
>             Project: Commons JEXL
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>    Affects Versions: 3.1
>            Reporter: Dmitri Blinov
>            Priority: Minor
>
> For the purpose of type checking in jexl, It whould be convenient to have some simple syntax for referring to class types, like Class<String> or Type<Boolean>. Literal Class<T> should refer to general classes, and literal Type<T> should refer to primitive type classes. For literals Class<T> it could be possible to specify partal class name, which should resolve to classes in basic packages like java.lang and java.util, for example.



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