[jira] Updated: (SCXML-69) JEXL built-in Data() function cannot return a reference to a whole element

["Rahul Akolkar (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SCXML-69?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Rahul Akolkar updated SCXML-69:
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    Affects Version/s:     (was: 0.8)
                           (was: 1.0)
        Fix Version/s:     (was: 0.8)

Only released versions should be marked as affected. Best to begin with a fix version of unknown.


> JEXL built-in Data() function cannot return a reference to a whole <data> element
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: SCXML-69
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SCXML-69
>             Project: Commons SCXML
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>    Affects Versions: 0.5, 0.6, 0.7
>            Reporter: Javier Arauz
>            Priority: Minor
>   Original Estimate: 72h
>  Remaining Estimate: 72h
>
> There is no way with JEXL of building a Data() expression that refers to a whole <data> element, only to one of its children.
> Using standard W3C SCXML it is possible to refer to a whole <data> element, e.g.:
>     <data name="myFoo"><content>Hi there!</content></data>
>     <data name="foo" expr="'bar'"/>
>     <assign location="/foo" expr="/myFoo/content"/>
> In theory, after running the above SCXML the 'foo' data element changes from value 'bar' to 'Hi there!'.
> There is no equivalent to the above SCXML using JEXL, since no Data() expression yields the root <data> element. This has the side effect that data elements as 'foo' above are effectively constants, since once defined there's no way of changing them.
> The solution to this problem would consist of implementing a new method in class org.apache.commons.scxml.Builtin that takes just two arguments: the namespaces in use and the name of the <data> element, and returns an org.w3c.Node containing whatever that <data> element contains. Then you could write:
>     <data name="myFoo"><content>Hi there!</content></data>
>     <data name="foo" expr="'bar'"/>
>     <assign location="Data(foo)" expr="Data(myFoo, 'content'"/>

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