Jetty example source code file (Expression.java)

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elexception, elexception, expression, expression, object, object, variableresolver, variableresolver

The Jetty Expression.java source code

/**
 *
 * Copyright 2003-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
 *
 *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 *  You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
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 *  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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//
// This source code implements specifications defined by the Java
// Community Process. In order to remain compliant with the specification
// DO NOT add / change / or delete method signatures!
//

package javax.servlet.jsp.el;


/**
 * <p>The abstract class for a prepared expression.

 *
 * <p>An instance of an Expression can be obtained via from an 
 * ExpressionEvaluator instance.</p>
 *
 * <p>An Expression may or not have done a syntactic parse of the expression.
 * A client invoking the evaluate() method should be ready for the case 
 * where ELParseException exceptions are raised. </p>
 *
 * @since 2.0
 */
public abstract class Expression {

    /** 
     * Evaluates an expression that was previously prepared.  In some 
     * implementations preparing an expression involves full syntactic 
     * validation, but others may not do so.  Evaluating the expression may 
     * raise an ELParseException as well as other ELExceptions due to 
     * run-time evaluation.
     *
     * @param vResolver A VariableResolver instance that can be used at 
     *   runtime to resolve the name of implicit objects into Objects.
     * @return The result of the expression evaluation.
     *
     * @exception ELException Thrown if the expression evaluation failed.
     */ 
    public abstract Object evaluate( VariableResolver vResolver )
        throws ELException;
}