Object parameters, Was: sitemap, jx and flow design

[Vadim Gritsenko]

Daniel Fagerstrom wrote:
BURGHARD Éric wrote:
 <generate type="jx" src="..">
   <!-- pass authentication dom to jx -->
   <parameter name="auth" dom="{session-context:authentication}"/>
 </generate>
I have never disputed that things might be clumsy now, I just think we 
should focus on getting the flowscript way better, instead of adding 
things that makes the sitemap more of a programming language, by 
handling a more diverse set of datatypes then strings.
This one is absolutely same issue you are discussing here:
  http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9916
IMHO, it is worth to discuss the issue of passing object parameters by itself, 
without mixing flow or jx into it, as a bonus we might get resolution for a 2.5 
years old feature request.

As for implementation, probably extending Parameters with getParameterAsObject, 
setParameter(String, Object) should be enough.

Vadim