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Dmitri Blinov commented on JEXL-177: ------------------------------------ Oh, thanks a lot, I have completely overlooked the possibility to use Classes instead of Objects for functors, though as is comes out it was documented even in 2.0 {code} funcs.put("fn177", fn177.class); {code} Nevertheless one problem keeps me unsatisfied, a *multiline* string literal, in the moment I'm using clumsy concatenations where string literals are intermixed with special *newline* variable, (which keeps string "\r" since we have none to insert it directly to literal), and the whole thing becomes a mess for relatively small XML fragment I'm trying to populate values with. It kind of works but in other languages like groovy, perl etc there is a notion of *String interpolation* syntax, and I believe its quite popular and in demand among users, so I thought if we have already had such a wonderful implementation of unified expressions it would be logical to have scripting and interpolation joined together in basic syntax. Anyway, thanks for your effort. > Unified expressions to be used in String literals in Jexl scripts > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: JEXL-177 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JEXL-177 > Project: Commons JEXL > Issue Type: New Feature > Affects Versions: 3.0 > Reporter: Dmitri Blinov > Priority: Minor > > Introduce new string literals to jexl script that allow unified expressions > to be used, string literals could use for example triple quoted (single or > double) syntax for delimiters, may include newlines and should not escape > single quotes > {code} > user = "Bob"; server = "Test"; s = """Hello ${user}, welcome to ${server}"""; > return s; > {code} -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)