[JEXL-262] Inline object property initialization construct

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Won't Do
• Affects Version/s: 3.1
• Fix Version/s: 3.1
• Assignee: Henri Biestro
• Reporter: Dmitri Blinov
• Created: 23/May/18 08:43
• Updated: 29/Jun/21 06:59
• Resolved: 16/Aug/18 13:55

Description

I wonder is it possible (not difficult) to implement in Jexl a construct that would allow us to initialize object properties in one statement, so that it would be possible to replace the code like

var i = Address;
i.City = 'NY';
i.Street = '1st Avenue';
i.House = '22';
return i;

with something like

Address {City : 'NY', Street : '1st Avenue', House : '22'}

May be we could also consider a variant for array-style accessors, like

var i = Address;
i["City"] = 'NY';
i["Street"] = '1st Avenue';
i["House"] = '22';
return i

would be identical to

Address {"City" : 'NY', "Street" : '1st Avenue', "House" : '22'}

I think this is somewhat similar to inline map initialization syntax, which is proved to be very useful and productive, so it would be nice to have such a feature for common objects too