Bug 48112 - Closing curly brace in literal string incorrectly treated as expression terminator.
Summary: Closing curly brace in literal string incorrectly treated as expression termi...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Tomcat 6
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Jasper (show other bugs)
Version: 6.0.20
Hardware: PC Mac OS X 10.4
: P2 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: default
Assignee: Tomcat Developers Mailing List
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Reported: 2009-11-03 07:09 UTC by schnake.michael
Modified: 2010-01-14 02:29 UTC (History)
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Description schnake.michael 2009-11-03 07:09:58 UTC
On tomcat 6.0.20 something like the following line in a JSP causes a exception:

<c:out value="${fn:trim('{world}')}"/>

After removing the closing curly brace from the literal ('{world}' -> '{world') the JSP works. This behaviour seems specific to 6.0.20, as on 6.0.18 and 6.0.16 the line above works fine.

Example of exception:
=====================
org.apache.jasper.JasperException: An exception occurred processing JSP page /test.jsp at line 11

8: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
9: </head>
10: <body>
11: <c:out value="${fn:trim('{world}')}"/>
12: </body>
13: </html>


Stacktrace:
	org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.handleJspException(JspServletWrapper.java:505)
	org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:416)
	org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:342)
	org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:267)
	javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
root cause

javax.el.ELException: Error Parsing: ${fn:trim('{world}
	org.apache.el.lang.ExpressionBuilder.createNodeInternal(ExpressionBuilder.java:125)
	org.apache.el.lang.ExpressionBuilder.build(ExpressionBuilder.java:150)
	org.apache.el.lang.ExpressionBuilder.createValueExpression(ExpressionBuilder.java:194)
	org.apache.el.ExpressionFactoryImpl.createValueExpression(ExpressionFactoryImpl.java:68)
	org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.proprietaryEvaluate(PageContextImpl.java:934)
	org.apache.jsp.test_jsp._jspx_meth_c_005fout_005f0(test_jsp.java:98)
	org.apache.jsp.test_jsp._jspService(test_jsp.java:72)
	org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:70)
	javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
	org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:374)
	org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:342)
	org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:267)
	javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
root cause

org.apache.el.parser.ParseException: Encountered " <ILLEGAL_CHARACTER> "\' "" at line 1, column 11.
Was expecting one of:
    <INTEGER_LITERAL> ...
    <FLOATING_POINT_LITERAL> ...
    <STRING_LITERAL> ...
    "true" ...
    "false" ...
    "null" ...
    "(" ...
    ")" ...
    "!" ...
    "not" ...
    "empty" ...
    "-" ...
    <IDENTIFIER> ...
    
	org.apache.el.parser.ELParser.generateParseException(ELParser.java:2142)
	org.apache.el.parser.ELParser.jj_consume_token(ELParser.java:2024)
	org.apache.el.parser.ELParser.Function(ELParser.java:1207)
	org.apache.el.parser.ELParser.NonLiteral(ELParser.java:1114)
	org.apache.el.parser.ELParser.ValuePrefix(ELParser.java:1016)
	org.apache.el.parser.ELParser.Value(ELParser.java:965)
	org.apache.el.parser.ELParser.Unary(ELParser.java:947)
	org.apache.el.parser.ELParser.Multiplication(ELParser.java:711)
	org.apache.el.parser.ELParser.Math(ELParser.java:631)
	org.apache.el.parser.ELParser.Compare(ELParser.java:443)
	org.apache.el.parser.ELParser.Equality(ELParser.java:337)
	org.apache.el.parser.ELParser.And(ELParser.java:281)
	org.apache.el.parser.ELParser.Or(ELParser.java:225)
	org.apache.el.parser.ELParser.Choice(ELParser.java:182)
	org.apache.el.parser.ELParser.Expression(ELParser.java:174)
	org.apache.el.parser.ELParser.DynamicExpression(ELParser.java:146)
	org.apache.el.parser.ELParser.CompositeExpression(ELParser.java:43)
	org.apache.el.lang.ExpressionBuilder.createNodeInternal(ExpressionBuilder.java:93)
	org.apache.el.lang.ExpressionBuilder.build(ExpressionBuilder.java:150)
	org.apache.el.lang.ExpressionBuilder.createValueExpression(ExpressionBuilder.java:194)
	org.apache.el.ExpressionFactoryImpl.createValueExpression(ExpressionFactoryImpl.java:68)
	org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.proprietaryEvaluate(PageContextImpl.java:934)
	org.apache.jsp.test_jsp._jspx_meth_c_005fout_005f0(test_jsp.java:98)
	org.apache.jsp.test_jsp._jspService(test_jsp.java:72)
	org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:70)
	javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
	org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:374)
	org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:342)
	org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:267)
	javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
Comment 1 Mark Thomas 2010-01-10 03:14:49 UTC
This has been fixed in trunk and will be proposed for 6.0.x after further testing.
Comment 2 Mark Thomas 2010-01-14 02:29:16 UTC
This has been fixed in 6.0.x and will be included in 6.0.23 onwards.