com.sun.el
Class ValueExpressionImpl

java.lang.Object
  ValueExpression
      com.sun.el.ValueExpressionImpl

All Implemented Interfaces:

Externalizable, Serializable

public final class ValueExpressionImpl
extends ValueExpression
implements Externalizable

An Expression that can get or set a value.

In previous incarnations of this API, expressions could only be read. ValueExpression objects can now be used both to retrieve a value and to set a value. Expressions that can have a value set on them are referred to as l-value expressions. Those that cannot are referred to as r-value expressions. Not all r-value expressions can be used as l-value expressions (e.g. "${1+1}" or "${firstName} ${lastName}"). See the EL Specification for details. Expressions that cannot be used as l-values must always return true from isReadOnly().

The ExpressionFactory#createValueExpression method can be used to parse an expression string and return a concrete instance of ValueExpression that encapsulates the parsed expression. The FunctionMapper is used at parse time, not evaluation time, so one is not needed to evaluate an expression using this class. However, the ELContext is needed at evaluation time.

The getValue(ELContext), setValue(ELContext, java.lang.Object), isReadOnly(ELContext) and getType(ELContext) methods will evaluate the expression each time they are called. The ELResolver in the ELContext is used to resolve the top-level variables and to determine the behavior of the . and [] operators. For any of the four methods, the ELResolver#getValue method is used to resolve all properties up to but excluding the last one. This provides the base object. At the last resolution, the ValueExpression will call the corresponding ELResolver#getValue, ELResolver#setValue, ELResolver#isReadOnly or ELResolver#getType method, depending on which was called on the ValueExpression.

See the notes about comparison, serialization and immutability in the Expression javadocs.

Version:

$Change: 181177 $$DateTime: 2001/06/26 08:45:09 $$Author: hmalphett $

Author:

Jacob Hookom [jacob@hookom.net]

See Also:

javax.el.ELResolver, javax.el.Expression, javax.el.ExpressionFactory, javax.el.ValueExpression

Constructor Summary

ValueExpressionImpl()

ValueExpressionImpl(String expr, Node node, FunctionMapper fnMapper, VariableMapper varMapper, Class expectedType)

Method Summary

boolean	equals(Object obj)
Class	getExpectedType()
String	getExpressionString() Returns the type the result of the expression will be coerced to after evaluation.
Class	getType(ELContext context)
Object	getValue(ELContext context)
ValueReference	getValueReference(ELContext context)
int	hashCode()
boolean	isLiteralText()
boolean	isReadOnly(ELContext context)
void	readExternal(ObjectInput in)
void	setValue(ELContext context, Object value)
String	toString()
void	writeExternal(ObjectOutput out)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, finalize, getClass, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

ValueExpressionImpl

public ValueExpressionImpl()

ValueExpressionImpl

public ValueExpressionImpl(String expr,
                           Node node,
                           FunctionMapper fnMapper,
                           VariableMapper varMapper,
                           Class expectedType)

Method Detail

equals

public boolean equals(Object obj)

getExpectedType

public Class getExpectedType()

getExpressionString

public String getExpressionString()

Returns the type the result of the expression will be coerced to after evaluation.

Returns:

the expectedType passed to the ExpressionFactory.createValueExpression method that created this ValueExpression.

See Also:

javax.el.Expression#getExpressionString()

getType

public Class getType(ELContext context)
              throws PropertyNotFoundException,
                     ELException

Throws:

PropertyNotFoundException

ELException

getValueReference

public ValueReference getValueReference(ELContext context)
                                 throws PropertyNotFoundException,
                                        ELException

Throws:

PropertyNotFoundException

ELException

getValue

public Object getValue(ELContext context)
                throws PropertyNotFoundException,
                       ELException

Throws:

PropertyNotFoundException

ELException

hashCode

public int hashCode()

isLiteralText

public boolean isLiteralText()

isReadOnly

public boolean isReadOnly(ELContext context)
                   throws PropertyNotFoundException,
                          ELException

Throws:

PropertyNotFoundException

ELException

readExternal

public void readExternal(ObjectInput in)
                  throws IOException,
                         ClassNotFoundException

Specified by:

readExternal in interface Externalizable

Throws:

IOException

ClassNotFoundException

setValue

public void setValue(ELContext context,
                     Object value)
              throws PropertyNotFoundException,
                     PropertyNotWritableException,
                     ELException

Throws:

PropertyNotFoundException

PropertyNotWritableException

ELException

writeExternal

public void writeExternal(ObjectOutput out)
                   throws IOException

Specified by:

writeExternal in interface Externalizable

Throws:

IOException

toString

public String toString()