Two feature requests (EL and HTTP parameters)

[agori]

Hi. I'd like to discuss a couple of feature requets:

First request

I have this action:

<s:link action="#{bean.action(item.id)}"/>

and I want the item.id part to be immediately resolved and not in a deferred fashion. I already possible to get this wit current jboss-el?
Maybe I am wrong, but I'd find this feature really usefull. What would happen if #{item.id}
is on a conversation and my link is

<s:link action="#{bean.action(item.id)}" propagation="none"/>

?
If item is in a conversation context, it would be evaluated to null. Instead I need a
way to fix its value on the page, immediately. Ability to evaluate it immediately in a
action expression would help a lot.

Second request

I know this issue can actually be solved using HTTP GET parameters (though I would prefer the first form in a web application):

<s:link action="#{bean.action(null)}" propagation="none">
  <f:param name="paramId" value="#{item.id}"/>
</s:link>

then keeping the method shown before I need a way to make it work on both way:

public class MyBean {
  @RequestParameter Integer paramId; 
  public String action(Integer id) {
    if (null == id) {id = paramId;}
    ...
  }
}

That's ugly. What about a

@HttpParam

annotation instead of RequestParameter?

public class MyBean {
  public String action(@Param("idParam")Integer id) {
    ...
  }
}

[agori]

Maybe both requirements can be solved with a simple nice trick:

<s:link action="#{bean.action(param.idItem)}">
  <f:param name="idItem" value="#{item.id}"/>
</s:link>