Re: [Chain] adding EL support

[Michael Rasmussen <ra...@gmail.com>]

There was some interest in this over the summer.  Has that interest
died?  Has this patch just been forgotten about?

http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=35326

Michael

On 6/10/05, Joe Germuska <Jo...@germuska.com> wrote:
> At 11:23 AM -0500 6/10/05, Michael Rasmussen wrote:
> >I am working with a framework similar to chain at my day job.  One of
> >the nice features of the framework I work with is that all of the core
> >'commands' support EL Evaluation when they take in values.  This is
> >something I would be interested in submitting a patch for if there is
> >a hint of interest.
>
> There's more than a hint; I've been using JEXL extensively with chain
> in my day job, and have made suggestions to the list before that it
> could be useful.  However, I am sensitive to the general sense that
> dependencies should be added lightly.
>
> Specifically, situations where you use the actual Chain context
> itself as the Expression evaluation context (or at least its basis)
> make a lot of cool things possible.
>
> I'm about to leave for vacation for a week, but I think this is a
> good general idea and would only want to see if other people have
> strong feelings about the dependencies or the packaging.  (One
> suggestion was that chain could have a secondary distribution
> artifact, something like ant-optional.  Obviously that solves the
> dependency question neatly, but it adds considerable management
> overhead, and I simply haven't had time lately to set things up that
> way.)
>
> Anyway, if it comes down to using an expression library, I'd argue
> for JEXL over commons-el because JEXL supports method invocation,
> which is incredibly handy.
>
> Joe
>
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