>From: "Niall Pemberton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> On 10/16/07, Gary VanMatre wrote:
> > >From: Iain Duncan
> > >
> > > Hi Gary,
> > >
> > > Thanks a lot for the information! Do you know if the mock implementation
> > > is going to be extended at any point to include dealing with lists
> > > reference by expressions like "#{myBean.myList[0]}"?
> > >
> >
> > I'm not sure. The test framework is one of the best parts of Shale but the
> only problem I see in expanding for more EL support is that it becomes more
> and
> more complicated. It's easy to draw the line with the existing mock
> implementation.
> >
> > At one time I added a fix to support scopes like
> "#{requestScope['xxx.xxx.xx']}" and Craig made a similar comment about
> keeping
> the mock implementation simple.
> >
> > However, Shale is used by many of the myfaces projects. I think the
> > community
> should make the decision providing there is a volunteer to contribute.
> >
>
> I don't know how Shale Test Framework supports EL - but with the new
> "Unified EL" spec, which is independant of servlet/jsf it might be an
> idea to plug that into the test framework. Apache Tomcat has released
> separate jars which are now available in the maven repo.
>
That sounds like something we should look into. I'm not sure how coupled it is
with JSP but would be better than building up a mock implementation.
> Niall
>
Gary
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Iain
> > >
> >
> >
> > Gary
> >
> >
> > > ___________________________________________
> > > Iain Duncan
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> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gary VanMatre)
> > > 16/10/2007 16:27
> > > Please respond to
> > > user@shale.apache.org
> > >
> > >
> > > To
> > > user@shale.apache.org
> > > cc
> > >
> > > Subject
> > > Re: Using shale-test with ValueBinding lists
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > >From: Iain Duncan
> > > >
> > > > Hello All,
> > > >
> > > > I've just started using shale-test to test an application using JSF1.1
> > > so
> > > > apologies if this is a dumb question and I am doing something obvious
> > > > wrong! I have been unable to get the getValue() method on a
> > > > ValueBinding
> > >
> > > > that involves a list to work. Does anyone know if this has been
> > > > implemented?
> > > >
> > >
> > > Simple expressions can be evaluated. The mock implementation tokenizes
> > > the expression based on the "dot" separator. So, you can evaluate
> > > expressions like "#{mybean.property}".
> > >
> > > You have to programmatically add your beans into scope in your unit tests
> > > or add a few lines of logic to process faces-config's.
> > >
> > >
> > > > Cheers,
> > > >
> > > > Iain
> > > >
> > >
> > > Gary
