[jira] [Resolved] (JEXL-172) Unexpected divide error for numerator which contains division in strict mode

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

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JEXL-172?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Henri Biestro resolved JEXL-172.
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    Resolution: Not A Problem

When all operands are integers, the operation is performed on integers without conversion. In this case (1 / 100) returns 0 and 1 / 0 throws an exception in strict mode.
The workaround is to use 'doubles' in you expression like: (1 / (1.0 / 100))  
Or you can derive JexlArithmetic and overload (at least) the divide method.

> Unexpected divide error for numerator which contains division in strict mode
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>
>                 Key: JEXL-172
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JEXL-172
>             Project: Commons JEXL
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 2.1.1
>         Environment: Java 7 OpenJDK
>            Reporter: Lars Helge Øverland
>            Priority: Minor
>
> It seems that evaluating expressions which contains nested divisions causes an exception to be thrown with cause "divide error".
> The following expression is valid math and should return 100:
> 1 / (1 / 100)
> Instead it throws:
> org.apache.commons.jexl2.JexlException: org.hisp.dhis.commons.util.ExpressionUtils.evaluate@81![0,13]: '1 / (1 / 100);' divide error
> This only applies to strict mode. However it could be argued that this should pass even in strict mode.
> I could not find anything in the docs about this so please excuse me if I missed something.



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