[JEXL-140] Improvements for invoking static methods

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Not A Problem
• Fix Version/s: 3.1
• Assignee: Henri Biestro
• Reporter: George Scott
• Created: 02/Aug/12 02:53
• Updated: 29/Jun/21 06:59
• Resolved: 03/Aug/12 07:21

Description

Two related suggestions:

1. The documentation does not really describe how to call a static method from a JEXL script. I believe that it is done this way:

class="".class;
return class.forName("java.lang.System").getenv("test");

2. Implementing a class() function that parallels the existing new() function would make calling static methods easier, helping to clean up scripts. The above example would become:

return class("java.lang.System").getenv("test");