Mark Can I direct your attention to java.beans.Statement and java.beans.Expression. They already do all the matching you're talking about.
EJP Forward to the list as per Marks' request. -----Original Message----- From: Mark Thomas [mailto:ma...@apache.org] Sent: Tuesday, 17 September 2013 12:02 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Using EL expressions in an ObjectFactory On 16/09/2013 14:43, Xavier Dury wrote: > I built tomcat from trunk (rev 1523639) and I'm having the same issue I had with glassfish EL implementation when using overloaded methods: > > javax.el.ELException: Cannot convert ./ of type class java.lang.String to class java.net.URI > at org.apache.el.lang.ELSupport.coerceToType(ELSupport.java:482) > at org.apache.el.ExpressionFactoryImpl.coerceToType(ExpressionFactoryImpl.java: 48) > at javax.el.ELContext.convertToType(ELContext.java:473) > at org.apache.el.lang.EvaluationContext.convertToType(EvaluationContext.java:15 5) > at javax.el.ELUtil.invokeConstructor(ELUtil.java:261) > at javax.el.StaticFieldELResolver.invoke(StaticFieldELResolver.java:203) > at javax.el.CompositeELResolver.invoke(CompositeELResolver.java:256) > at org.apache.el.parser.AstFunction.getValue(AstFunction.java:138) > at org.apache.el.ValueExpressionImpl.getValue(ValueExpressionImpl.java:188) > at javax.el.ELProcessor.getValue(ELProcessor.java:129) > at javax.el.ELProcessor.eval(ELProcessor.java:115) > at > org.apache.naming.factory.ExpressionFactoryTest.elImplementationShould > Work(ExpressionFactoryTest.java:43) > > So I guess it's normal behaviour, isn't it? > > I don't think EL spec does mandate implementations to make their best effort to find a suitable method when invoking overloaded methods. My intention with the Tomcat EL implementation is to replicate, as far as possible, the matching process that the Java compiler uses. If you open a bug and include a test case along the lines of this one[1], I'll take a look. Mark [1] http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/tomcat/trunk/test/javax/el/TestUtil.java?view=a nnotate --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
