[jira] Commented: (LANG-482) Enhance StrSubstitutor to support nested ${var-${subvr}} expansion

["Paul Benedict (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Paul Benedict commented on LANG-482:
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I am not a fan of substitution variables that become substitution variables. It sounds closer to a pre-compiler. Technologies like Maven, Spring, and JSP/JSF do not support this and, likewise, I vote not to apply this.

> Enhance StrSubstitutor to support nested ${var-${subvr}} expansion
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: LANG-482
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-482
>             Project: Commons Lang
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: lang.text.*
>            Reporter: Rob Walker
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 3.1
>
>         Attachments: StrSubstitutor.java.nested.patch
>
>
> t would be really handy of StrSubstitutor could support nested variable interpolation:
> org.osgi.framework.system.packages=org.osgi.framework; version=1.4.0, \
> org.osgi.service.packageadmin; version=1.2.0, \
> org.osgi.service.startlevel; version=1.1.0, \
> org.osgi.service.url; version=1.0.0, \
> org.osgi.util.tracker; version=1.3.3 \
> ${jre-${java.specification.version}}
> The process being to expand innermost variable references first and work outwards - this allows for very advance config, such as the above, which can dynamically detect the Java version and expand a JRE version specific property into the property being defined.
> Looking at the implementation, it seems it might be a fairly straightforward enhancement to:
> private int substitute(StrBuilder buf, int offset, int length, List priorVariables)
> The code already has the cyclic map in place.
> I already have code that achieves this within Apache Felix, so I will see if I can retro-fit a similar model to the above and if so submit a patch. 

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