Project: Tomcat
Bug 55442 EL Constructor throws exception
Reported: 2013-08-17 13:39:06 | Status: resolved fixed

In the EL 3.0 Spec, section 1.22.3 "Constructor Reference" states "A class name reference, followed by arguments in parenthesis, such as "Boolean(true)" denotes the invocation of the constructor of the class with the supplied arguments." This leads me to believe that the following test should work: @Test public void testImport03() { ELProcessor processor = new ELProcessor(); Object result = processor.getValue("Integer('1000')", Integer.class); Assert.assertEquals(Integer.valueOf(1000), result); } Unfortunately, this fails with the following error. javax.el.ELException: Function ':Integer' not found at org.apache.el.parser.AstFunction.getValue(AstFunction.java:136) at org.apache.el.ValueExpressionImpl.getValue(ValueExpressionImpl.java:188) at javax.el.ELProcessor.getValue(ELProcessor.java:45) at org.apache.el.parser.TestAstIdentifier.testImport03(TestAstIdentifier.java:53) ... Thanks

Files changed in fix:
java/org/apache/el/parser/AstFunction.java test/org/apache/el/parser/TestAstFunction.java