[VELOCITY-825] Automatically convert String method arguments to Enum when possible

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Done
• Affects Version/s: 1.7
• Fix Version/s: 2.0
• Component/s: Engine
• Assignee: Claude Brisson
• Reporter: Marius Dumitru Florea
• Created: 15/May/12 17:40
• Updated: 07/Jan/18 15:46
• Resolved: 20/Jul/16 12:04

Description

Would be nice if

$obj.someMethod('VALUE')

would call

obj.someMethod(SomeEnum.VALUE);

when obj has #someMethod(SomeEnum). In other words, if no method is found for the provided arguments then see if some of the String arguments can be replaced with Enum constants.