Access field of an Object in a Controller variable

[beve]

Hi,

I'm trying to access a field (firstName) of an Object instance (entireCustomerAsObject) like this:

<task-node name="Review Order" async="true">
 <task name="Order Review">
 <assignment actor-id="user"/>
 <controller>
 <variable name="entireCustomerAsObject.firstName" access="read,write,required" mapped-name="customer_firstName"/>
 </controller>
 </task>
 <transition name="" to="Calculate Discount"/>
</task-node>

An object named 'entireCustomerAsObject' exists and is populated (if I remove the '.firstName' the object toString method is invoked and displayed in the form).
Is it possbile to access a field of an object in the name attribute field like shown above? I've tried different combinations but without success.

Thanks,

/Daniel

[kukeltje]

Is it possbile to access a field of an object in the name attribute field like shown above?

No, the variable 'name' attribute is a string 'id' and not an object. The way you do it, you should have persisted a variable with the name "entireCustomerAsObject.firstName"

[beve]

Ah, ok thanks!

Just thinking about this...would it be possible to use an expression language like MVEL to support thes kind of access that I was on about?

Something similar to this (ContextInstance):

public Object getVariable(String name, Token token) {
 Object variable = null;
 TokenVariableMap tokenVariableMap = getTokenVariableMap(token);
 if (tokenVariableMap != null) {
 try {
 variable = MVEL.eval( name, tokenVariableMap.getVariablesLocally());
 }
 catch( Exception e )
 {
 variable = tokenVariableMap.getVariable(name);
 }
 }
 return variable;
 }

Regards,

/Daniel