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Bug 351996

Summary:

JSP validator shows false errors for EL conditional operator

Product:

[WebTools] WTP Source Editing

Reporter:

Andrew <coder27>

Component:

jst.jsp

Assignee:

Nick Sandonato <nsand.dev>

Status:

RESOLVED FIXED

QA Contact:

Nick Sandonato <nsand.dev>

Severity:

major

Priority:

CC:

mauromol, thatnitind

Version:

3.3

Target Milestone:

3.3.2

Hardware:

OS:

Linux

Whiteboard:

Attachments:

Description	Flags
patch	none

Description Andrew

2011-07-13 11:46:12 EDT

JSP validator do not understand "expr ? value1 : value2" EL operator. This fragment generates false error message:

<c:set var="customer" 
    value="${(empty PurchaserName) ? tx : fn:substring(PurchaserName, 0, 100) }"/>

The function tx:fn is undefined	sale.jsp 

-- Configuration Details --
Product: Eclipse 1.4.0.20110609-1120 (org.eclipse.epp.package.jee.product)
Installed Features:
 org.eclipse.jdt 3.7.0.v20110520-0800-7z8gFchFMTdFYKuLqBLqRja9B15B

Comment 1 Nitin Dahyabhai

2011-07-13 19:44:25 EDT

Lowering severity as this doesn't meet the criteria for a "blocker." 

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/page.cgi?id=fields.html#importance

Comment 2 Nick Sandonato

2011-11-08 17:49:12 EST

Created attachment 206631 [details]
patch

The parser was turning the conditional expression and turning the two identifiers into a method invocation. Updated the el specification to look far enough ahead to make sure something is a method invocation.

Comment 3 Nick Sandonato

2011-11-08 17:51:06 EST

Code checked in.