jboss-el limitations for lvals?

[jcruise]

In Seam 1.2.1GA I was not using jboss-el, and I had a value expression passed to a facelet source tag that looked something like this:

value="#{not empty f.expression ? f.expressionValue : f.componentProperty ? value[f.component][f.property] : value[f.name]}"

Now with Seam 2.0B1 (and the new Jboss-el) this gives me an error:

Illegal Syntax for Set Operation

when the form is submitted.

Should I factor this out into mutliple separate simpler expression and put the conditional logic elsewhere? Or is this a limitation that we expect to be lifted at some point?

Cheers
J

[hookomjj]

can you provide a bit more on how that value is used? I do know that Seam 2.0 is using a new strategy for annotated validation, which uses the setter on an EL Expression. This works great-- but if your value is being assigned where a setter occurs (ie ValueHolder component), then EL is hardwired to return that error on a choice statement.

[jcruise]

If I understand your quetion correctly, it wasn't used to directly set the value on a ValueHolder, it was setting a parameter on a facelet source tag:

e.g. not

<h:inputText value="#{a? a: b}" />

but more like:

<sl:myInputField value="#{a? a: b}" label="..." />

<ui:composition xmlns-"...>
 <h:inputText value="#{value}" />
</ui:composition>

if that helps :) - I don't have the original code to hand any more.

Cheers
J