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Greg Brown commented on PIVOT-556:
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It is true that the result of dereferencing the variable is a reference, but:
a) Everything in BXML is a reference type (not to mention that Java doesn't
even support true value types), so that distinction is not really relevant.
b) A Java reference is also a value - the value is a pointer.
So I think "value" is more appropriate, because the element will be replaced by
the value referred to by the variable name. Under the hood, that value will be
a reference, but again, that's not really relevant to the caller. The caller is
simply interested in getting the value of the variable.
> Add a <bxml:value> tag
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> Key: PIVOT-556
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIVOT-556
> Project: Pivot
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: core-beans
> Reporter: Greg Brown
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 2.1
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> This tag will support an "id" attribute specifying the name of a
> serializer-scoped variable. It will allow callers to dereference variables as
> elements (current, variable dereferencing is limited to attributes and
> script).
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