[jira] [Commented] (JEXL-151) operators to manipulate j.u.Collection

["Dmitri Blinov (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Dmitri Blinov commented on JEXL-151:
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For now I have managed to overload operators + and - via JexlArithmetic to support manipulation of Collection items, it's odd-looking a bit, but works. Another case is =~ operator which is implemented inside Interpreter.java and since can not be overloaded, but as I see it requires only three lines of code to implement

            // try contains on collection
            if (right instanceof Collection<?>) {
+               if (left instanceof Collection<?>) 
+                  return ((Collection<?>) right).containsAll((Collection<?>) left);
+               else
                   return ((Collection<?>) right).contains(left);
            }

Can we include it in near future?


> operators to manipulate j.u.Collection
> --------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: JEXL-151
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JEXL-151
>             Project: Commons JEXL
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>    Affects Versions: 3.0
>            Reporter: Dmitri Blinov
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: Later
>
>
> New operators to add or remove collection items to/from Collection. Operators can be named as += and -= respectively, or any other way. Operator += can be mapped to Collection.addAll(Collection c) if right argument is Collection or to Collection.add(Object o) otherwise. Operator -= can be mapped to Collection.removeAll(Collection c) if right argument is Collection or to Collection.remove(Object o) otherwise. Extend operators =~  (!~) to support CollectionA =~ CollectionB usage, in which case it should map to B.containsAll(A) operation.



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