Prior to this commit, it was unclear to users and third parties that it
is necessary to manually configure a StandardTypeLocator with a
specific ClassLoader to ensure that the SpEL expression parser is able
to reliably locate user types.
For example, the StandardBeanExpressionResolver in the spring-context
module configures a StandardTypeLocator using the bean ClassLoader of
the corresponding BeanFactory.
This commit improves the documentation to raise awareness of this fact.
Closes gh-26253
This commit adds support for inlined Kotlin value
class properties in SpEL by leveraging Kotlin
reflection instead of Java reflection broken
by the mangled method name.
Closes gh-30468
Java 12 introduced java.lang.Class#componentType() as a shortcut for
getComponentType().
Since we started using arrayType() in fe5560400c, this commit switches
to componentType() for consistent API usage style.
Prior to this commit, if a Spring Expression Language (SpEL) expression
contained indexed access to an object, the generated AST String
representation incorrectly included a dot ('.') before the index access.
For example, 'property[0]' had a generated AST string representation of
'property.[0]'.
This commit addresses this by reworking the logic in
CompoundExpression.toStringAST().
Closes gh-30610
Prior to this commit, only the letters 'A' - 'Z' (ignoring case) were
supported in identifiers (i.e., property, field, and variable names).
This known (yet undocumented) limitation prevented the use of characters
such as 'ü', 'ñ', 'é' as well as letters from other character sets such
as Chinese, Japanese, Cyrillic, etc.
This commit lifts that restriction by delegating to Character.isLetter()
to determine if a character in a SpEL expression is a letter.
Closes gh-30580
Prior to this commit, when an unsupported character such as "ü" was
encountered in a SpEL expression, the error message was:
Cannot handle (252) 'ü'
With this commit, the error message is now similar to:
Unsupported character 'ü' (252) encountered at position 5 in expression.
See gh-30580
Closes gh-30602
This commit adds support for MethodHandles in SpEL, using the same
syntax as user-defined functions (which also covers reflective Methods).
The most benefit is expected with handles that capture a static method
with no arguments, or with fully bound handles (where all the arguments
have been bound, including a target instance as first bound argument
if necessary). Partially bound MethodHandle should also be supported.
A best effort approach is taken to detect varargs as there is no API
support to determine if an argument is a vararg or an explicit array,
unlike with Method. Argument conversions are also applied. Finally,
array repacking is not always necessary with varargs so it is only
performed when the vararg is the sole argument to the invoked method.
See gh-27099
Closes gh-30045
This commit improves both the javadoc and the reference guide section on
the Elvis SpEL operator to clarify that in addition to `null` objects,
empty Strings also lead the operator to evaluate to its second operand.
The reference guide's advanced snippet is modified to use such an empty
String instead of `null` to make that behavior prominent with some code.
See gh-30318
Closes gh-30352
Prior to gh-30325, supplying a null reference for a SpEL expression was
effectively equivalent to supplying the String "null" as the
expression. Consequently, evaluation of a null reference expression
always evaluated to a null reference. However, that was accidental
rather than by design.
Due to the introduction of the checkExpressionLength(String) method in
InternalSpelExpressionParser (in conjunction with gh-30325), an attempt
to evaluate a null reference as a SpEL expression now results in a
NullPointerException.
To address both of these issues,
TemplateAwareExpressionParser.parseExpression() and
SpelExpressionParser.parseRaw() now reject null and empty SpEL
expressions.
Closes gh-30371
This commit introduces infrastructure to differentiate between
programmatic setting of a variable in an EvaluationContext versus the
assignment of a variable within a SpEL expression using the assignment
operator (=). In addition, this commit disables variable assignment
within expressions when using the SimpleEvaluationContext.
Closes gh-30326
This commit introduces support for limiting the maximum length of a
string resulting from the concatenation operator (+) in SpEL
expressions.
Closes gh-30324
This commit changes the max regex length in SpEL expressions from 1024
to 1000 in order to consistently use "round" numbers for recently
introduced limits.
See gh-30265
This commit increases the max regex length in SpEL expressions from 256
to 1024 in order to support use cases where a regex may be rather long
without necessarily increasing the complexity of the regex.
Closes gh-30265
This commit refactors some AssertJ assertions into more idiomatic and
readable ones. Using the dedicated assertion instead of a generic one
will produce more meaningful error messages.
For instance, consider collection size:
```
// expected: 5 but was: 2
assertThat(collection.size()).equals(5);
// Expected size: 5 but was: 2 in: [1, 2]
assertThat(collection).hasSize(5);
```
Closes gh-30104
Supplying a large regular expression to the `matches` operator in a
SpEL expression can result in errors that are not very helpful to the
user.
This commit improves the diagnostics in SpEL for the `matches` operator
by throwing a SpelEvaluationException with a meaningful error message
to better assist the user.
Closes gh-30144
Attempting to create repeated text in a SpEL expression using the
repeat operator can result in errors that are not very helpful to the
user.
This commit improves the diagnostics in SpEL for the repeat operator by
throwing a SpelEvaluationException with a meaningful error message in
order to better assist the user.
Closes gh-30142
Prior to this commit, the pattern cache for the SpEL `matches` operator
only applied to expressions such as the following where the same
`matches` operator is invoked multiple times with different input:
"map.keySet().?[#this matches '.+xyz']"
The pattern cache did not apply to expressions such as the following
where the same pattern ('.+xyz') is used in multiple `matches`
operations:
"foo matches '.+xyz' AND bar matches '.+xyz'"
This commit addresses this by moving the instance of the pattern cache
map from OperatorMatches to InternalSpelExpressionParser so that the
cache can be reused for all `matches` operations for the given parser.
Closes gh-30140
Sam Brannen
Stephane Nicoll
hzmpay
Juergen Hoeller
Harry Yang
Sébastien Deleuze
Johnny Lim
Simon Baslé
Krzysztof Krasoń