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Henry Zongaro commented on XALANJ-2127:
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Hi, Nick.  I've reviewed your patch.[1]  It certainly seems to fix the basic 
problems with the org.apache.xalan.xsltc.runtime.CallFunction class, and 
coupled with Arun's old patch for 
org.apache.xalan.xsltc.compiler.FunctionCall[2] allows for some limited dynamic 
method resolution.

I'm concerned though that CallFunction.invokeMethod only permits the result to 
be of type String, and that it doesn't allow for dynamic resolution of static 
methods.  Those don't describe bugs in your patch, but rather deficiencies in 
how this dynamic method resolution was originally designed.

I'm inclined to hold off an applying this change, and hope that someone is able 
to produce a more comprehensive solution to the problem of dynamic method 
resolution.

Henry.

[1] http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12310606/CallFunction.patch
[2] 
http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/xml-xalan/java/src/org/apache/xalan/xsltc/compiler/FunctionCall.java?r1=1.37&r2=1.38

> Add support to dynamicly invoke methods if required.
> ----------------------------------------------------
>
>          Key: XALANJ-2127
>          URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XALANJ-2127
>      Project: XalanJ2
>         Type: Improvement
>   Components: XSLTC
>     Versions: CurrentCVS
>     Reporter: Nick Van den Bleeken
>  Attachments: CallFunction.patch, foo.xml, testcase.xsl
>
> In some cases functions needs to be reolved dynamicly. This functionality was 
> introduced on 2/23/2004 (on org.apache.xalan.xsltc.compiler.FunctionCall 
> revision 1.38) but removed after the release of 2.6. I know there was a 
> problem with it in certain cases, but if you changed the code in the patch in 
> typeCheckExternal(SymbolTable stable) to :
>  else if(firstArgType instanceof ReferenceType){
>    hasThisArgument = true;
>    _thisArgument = (Expression) _arguments.elementAt(0);
>    _arguments.remove(0); nArgs--;
>    resolveDynamic = true;
>    typeCheckArgs(stable);
>    return _type = Type.String
>  }
> The dynamic calling seems to work in 'more' cases ...
> The commit comments of the revert of this patch (revision 1.39) states 
> 'Reverting latest patch by Arun. There are some problems with the new code to 
> invoke functions dynamically (e.g. docbook reports a compile-time type check 
> error). The approach taken to determine when to invoke methods dynamically 
> needs to be revisted.'
> Can someone help me with what the exact problems are with 'The approach taken 
> to determine when to invoke methods dynamically needs to be revisted.'. 
> I'm willing to free some time to fix this problem, but I need some extra 
> information because I don't understand what is wrong the riginal check if 
> dynamic invoction of the method is required.

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