Dmitri Blinov created JEXL-229:
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Summary: Introduce new syntax for class literals: Class<T> and
Type<T>
Key: JEXL-229
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JEXL-229
Project: Commons JEXL
Issue Type: New Feature
Affects Versions: 3.1
Reporter: Dmitri Blinov
Priority: Minor
For the purpose of type checking in jexl, It whould be convenient to have some
simple syntax for referring to class types, like Class<String> or
Type<Boolean>. Literal Class<T> should refer to general classes, and literal
Type<T> should refer to primitive type classes. For literals Class<T> it could
be possible to specify partal class name, which should resolve to classes in
basic packages like java.lang and java.util, for example.
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