Tomcat example source code file (ExpressionEvaluator.java)

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The Tomcat ExpressionEvaluator.java source code

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package javax.servlet.jsp.el;


/**
 * <p>The abstract base class for an expression-language evaluator.
 * Classes that implement an expression language expose their functionality
 * via this abstract class.</p>
 *
 * <p>An instance of the ExpressionEvaluator can be obtained via the 
 * JspContext / PageContext</p>
 *
 * <p>The parseExpression() and evaluate() methods must be thread-safe.  
 * That is, multiple threads may call these methods on the same 
 * ExpressionEvaluator object simultaneously.  Implementations should 
 * synchronize access if they depend on transient state.  Implementations 
 * should not, however, assume that only one object of each 
 * ExpressionEvaluator type will be instantiated; global caching should 
 * therefore be static.</p>
 *
 * <p>Only a single EL expression, starting with '${' and ending with
 * '}', can be parsed or evaluated at a time.  EL expressions 
 * cannot be mixed with static text.  For example, attempting to 
 * parse or evaluate "<code>abc${1+1}def${1+1}ghi" or even
 * "<code>${1+1}${1+1}" will cause an ELException to
 * be thrown.</p>
 *
 * <p>The following are examples of syntactically legal EL expressions:
 *
 * <ul>
 *   <li>${person.lastName}
 *   <li>${8 * 8}
 *   <li>${my:reverse('hello')}
 * </ul>
 * </p>
 *
 * @since 2.0
 * @deprecated
 */
public abstract class ExpressionEvaluator {

    /**
     * Prepare an expression for later evaluation.  This method should perform
     * syntactic validation of the expression; if in doing so it detects 
     * errors, it should raise an ELParseException.
     *
     * @param expression The expression to be evaluated.
     * @param expectedType The expected type of the result of the evaluation
     * @param fMapper A FunctionMapper to resolve functions found in 
     *     the expression.  It can be null, in which case no functions 
     *     are supported for this invocation.  The ExpressionEvaluator 
     *     must not hold on to the FunctionMapper reference after 
     *     returning from <code>parseExpression().  The 
     *     <code>Expression object returned must invoke the same 
     *     functions regardless of whether the mappings in the 
     *     provided <code>FunctionMapper instance change between 
     *     calling <code>ExpressionEvaluator.parseExpression()
     *     and <code>Expression.evaluate().
     * @return The Expression object encapsulating the arguments.
     *
     * @exception ELException Thrown if parsing errors were found.
     */ 
    public abstract Expression parseExpression( String expression, 
				       Class expectedType, 
				       FunctionMapper fMapper ) 
      throws ELException; 


    /** 
     * Evaluates an expression.  This method may perform some syntactic 
     * validation and, if so, it should raise an ELParseException error if 
     * it encounters syntactic errors.  EL evaluation errors should cause 
     * an ELException to be raised.
     *
     * @param expression The expression to be evaluated.
     * @param expectedType The expected type of the result of the evaluation
     * @param vResolver A VariableResolver instance that can be used at 
     *     runtime to resolve the name of implicit objects into Objects.
     * @param fMapper A FunctionMapper to resolve functions found in 
     *     the expression.  It can be null, in which case no functions 
     *     are supported for this invocation.  
     * @return The result of the expression evaluation.
     *
     * @exception ELException Thrown if the expression evaluation failed.
     */ 
    public abstract Object evaluate( String expression, 
			    Class expectedType, 
			    VariableResolver vResolver,
			    FunctionMapper fMapper ) 
      throws ELException; 
}