[cdi-dev] Fw: Answer from EL spec lead: no, "." is not valid in an EL name.

Romain Manni-Bucau rmannibucau at gmail.com
Wed Jan 14 05:09:21 EST 2015


+1 for B (IMO it is not used that much)




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2015-01-14 10:54 GMT+01:00 Jozef Hartinger <jharting at redhat.com>:
> I think further action is needed on this. Now that it has been confirmed
> that "javax.enterprise.context.conversation" itself is not a valid EL
> name we should either:
>
> A) Require all CDI implementations to adapt the property-based approach
> which allows this to be implemented portably (as Weld does)
> B) Declare publicly that although the CDI spec declares the given name,
> it is a bug and applications should not use the name. (What about
> compatibility with existing applications?)
>
> Jozef
>
> On 01/08/2015 09:27 AM, Mark Struberg wrote:
>> Dear CDI fellows!
>>
>> I've received an answer regarding our EL question from the EL Spec Lead.
>>
>> Ed, thanks for helping us!
>>
>>
>> LieGrue,
>> strub
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> On Tuesday, 6 January 2015, 23:14, Edward Burns <edward.burns at oracle.com> wrote:
>>>> Hello Mark,
>>> To close this out, no, "." is not valid in an EL name.  An EL name
>>> must
>>> be a java identifier.  I'm told this was discussed by Pete a long time
>>> ago in the EL 3.0 EG.
>>>
>>> Ed
>>>
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