Re: [jexl] dotted property names in expressions

[Peter Royal <pr...@apache.org>]

On Monday, August 18, 2003, at 04:42  PM, Ryan Hoegg wrote:
> There is a problem with jexl when testing dotted property names for 
> emptiness.  I am using it from jelly through maven:
>
> maven -Ddotted.property.name=foo goal
>
> inside the goal:
>
> <j:if test="${empty(dotted.property.name)}">
>  <echo> Empty property </echo>
> </j:if>
>
> <j:set var="littlename" value="${dotted.property.name}"/>
>
> <j:if test="${empty(littlename)}">
> <echo> Empty little property </echo>
> </j:if>
>

I just added a unit test to the CVS version of jexl, I think it 
exercises this ( and works fine )
-pete