According to the commons-jexl change logs, a breaking change was released in 3.0:
"Syntactically enforce that expressions do not contain statements: POTENTIAL EXPRESSION BREAK! (ie an expression is not a script and can NOT use 'if','for'... and blocks)" I was able to fix this by switching from JexlExpression to JexlScript. I have a small patch that I'm happy to contribute! On Sun, Oct 10, 2021 at 3:30 PM Max Ockner <maxock...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to use JEXL expressions similar to the ones described here > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NUTCH-2368. > > I consistently get an error parsing my "if" statement. > > I can reproduce with a simpler expression: > -Dgenerate.max.count.expr='if (true) {return 2} else {return 1}' > > I'm running 1.19 on java 11 (also tried with java 8). > > Has anyone else seen this problem? > > Thanks, > Ma >