[jsr-314-open] Coercion in the EL

[Dan Allen]

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Martin Marinschek
<mmarinschek at apache.org>wrote:

> Hi Dan,
>
> fact is that the spec says this:
>
> Coerce A to Boolean
>
>    * If A is null or "", return false
>    * Otherwise, if A is a Boolean, return A
>    * Otherwise, if A is a String, and Boolean.valueOf(A) does not
> throw an exception, return it
>
> so it DOES touch the nulls. I don't know either who came up with this.
>

Right, I agree with you. I'm saying that this is silly behavior. Either it
should leave null alone or choose to convert it only *if* the expected-type
is a primitive (in this case a primitive boolean).

-Dan

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