Dmitri Blinov created JEXL-200: ---------------------------------- Summary: Support for dynamic scripting in jexl scripts Key: JEXL-200 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JEXL-200 Project: Commons JEXL Issue Type: New Feature Affects Versions: 3.0 Reporter: Dmitri Blinov Priority: Minor
Allow for dynamically defined functions inside a script where the definition of the function comes from a string expression, for example: {code} def x(y) = "return y+2"; {code} the defined function should be accessable after its definition is successfully parsed as ordinary function, and can be evaluated in the current context. {code} if (x(40) eq 42) {... {code} I think the idea of dynamic script evaluation is not unusual, and though to some extent can be implemented via side-added functions like *eval(expr)* a dedicated syntax for this will benefit from the simplicity of ordinal functions and the ability to control mapping of the arguments between a caller and the defined function. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)