[EL-11] [el] VariableResolverImpl is ignorant of the implicit variables 'request' and 'response'

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: Nightly Builds
• Fix Version/s: 1.1

Environment

Operating System: other
Platform: Other

• Bugzilla Id: 37592
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: David Bullock
• Created: 23/Nov/05 00:16
• Updated: 24/Aug/07 17:50

Description

I refer you to JSP.8.8 of the JSP 2.0 FR spec (and also of the JSP 2.1 draft),
where INSTEAD OF the implicit 'pageContext' object, there are meant to be
'request' and 'response' implicit objects.

This isn't working for me with tag files produced by some version of Jasper/EL
embedded in Sun Java System Application Server 8 (specifically, when I invoke a
function like '${f:myFunction(request)}' from a tag file, a null pointer is
passed to the function). From a fairly quick read of the current source, it
would appear that the call-stack initiated by
org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.proprietaryEvaluate(...) ultimately
defers to org.apache.commons.el.VariableResolverImpl to discover implicit
objects used in an expression.

And VariableResolverImpl simply doesn't know about 'request' and 'response'.
Notice also that – when invoked in the context of a Tag file – it shouldn't
know about 'pageContext' either.

http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/jakarta-commons/el/src/java/org/apache/commons/el/VariableResolverImpl.java?rev=1.3&view=markup

As to whether the Jasper crowd are using Commons EL correctly or not, I'm not to
judge, but it does seem to me that the EL layer should get the heads up first.

have fun,
David.

My own keywords: Jasper EL tag file tagfile implicit variable variables request
response pageContext NullPointerException JSP expression evaluate null