[jsr-314-open] Why do we disallow EL for h:dataTable "var" attribute?

[Andy Schwartz]

One comment to add to Simon's comments (which I agree with)...
h:dataTable is simply following the pattern set by JSTL's c:forEach,
which we clearly would not want to deviate from without some very
compelling use case.

Andy

Simon Lessard wrote On 3/6/2009 12:21 PM ET:
> Hi all,
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> Although I guess it would be technically possible (yet weird and most likely very complicated) to support EL for the var attribute, it wouldn't make much sense as 'var' is used as a variable name for iteration purpose. In much senses, it's like a really short lived managed bean and we don't support dynamic managed bean names either. I wonder how the EL would have to look like to support such feature (scope[myBean.varName].attribute?) and what kinf od use case it would solve.
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> Regards,
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> ~ Simon
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> Subject: Why do we disallow EL for h:dataTable "var" attribute?
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> Someone on JSR-314-COMMENTS asked this question and I don't recall the
> answer, but I trust there's a good one since it's baked into the spec.
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> Any ideas?
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> Ed
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