[jsr-314-open] Coercion in the EL

[Andy Schwartz]

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

+1

Seems like we should take this issue to the JSP/EL EG.

Andy

>
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