Adrian Crum wrote: > --- On Sat, 1/30/10, Adam Heath <doo...@brainfood.com> wrote: >>>> What kind of modifications do you need to do? >>>> Auto-vivification kinda >>>> stuff? >>> No, basic OFBiz kinda stuff. >>> >>> <set field="var" value="Hello World!"/> >>> >>> I need to set the var Map element to "Hello World!" >> The Map I'm being handed is read-only. >>> The nexus is FlexibleMapAccessor. Most of the >> framework uses it, and its purpose is to update a Map or a >> List. But it gets handed a read-only Map. I just pass the >> read-only Map on to the UEL stuff, and then convert it when >> I actually need to change something in it. >> >> So that needs to be writable, then the call sites need to >> be updated. >> >> Do multiple(many) java-based services call FMA? Or >> are there just a >> few places that do a mass proxy around the other >> systems? I'm >> thinking that maybe we should make this more explicit, >> documentation >> that service implementations can modify their context, but >> any such >> changes will not be propagated back to callers. > > I will think about it some more. FMA accepts a read-only Map to get values, > and it accepts a writable Map to put values. The problem is in UelUtil - it > wants a writable Map in either case. I will try to think of a solution.
Actually, that's a good point, and something I wouldn't want to lose.
