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Henri Biestro commented on JEXL-113: ------------------------------------ Hi Max, So, your functional need is extracting which variables are used to evaluate a script. I've had the same need for a while. So maybe an 'extractDependencies' method could be more useful than fumbling with the 'dot' operator behavior. Its signature could be: Set<List<String>> JexlEngine.extractDependencies(Script script). Each entry in the returned set would be the list of constant 'names' used in references aka dot or bracket expressions. Would this be adequate ? Cheers Henri PS/ thanks for the positive reinforcement :-) > Dot notation behaves unexpectedly with null values > -------------------------------------------------- > > Key: JEXL-113 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JEXL-113 > Project: Commons JEXL > Issue Type: Bug > Affects Versions: 2.0.1 > Environment: JDK 1.6 > Reporter: Max Tardiveau > > When a variable of the form a.b is evaluated, the context is asked first for > the value of a. That value is then asked for the value of b. > So far, so good: this is exactly what you'd expect from the dot operator. > But if the value of b is null, the context is then asked for the value of > a.b, in other words the dot operator is ignored and "a.b" is considered to be > a single variable. > This is at best confusing. Granted, this can be avoided with the a['b'] > notation, but that's clumsy. > I assume this is an attempt to support both the dot operator and ant-style > variables. I don't think you can have both and remain sane. > Suggestion: either document this behavior, or make it an option. My vote > would be to just use the value returned, even if it's null. Either dot is an > operator, or it's not. Perhaps make that configurable? > Thanks! -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira