tiles-mvel/src/main/java/org/apache/tiles/mvel/MVELAttributeEvaluator.java

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package org.apache.tiles.mvel;

import org.apache.tiles.context.TilesRequestContextHolder;
import org.apache.tiles.evaluator.AbstractAttributeEvaluator;
import org.apache.tiles.request.Request;
import org.mvel2.MVEL;
import org.mvel2.integration.VariableResolverFactory;

/**
 * Allows to use MVEL as the language to evaluate attribute values.
 *
 * @version $Rev$ $Date$
 * @since 2.2.0
 */
public class MVELAttributeEvaluator extends AbstractAttributeEvaluator {

    /**
     * Holds the Tiles request context of the current thread.
     */
    private TilesRequestContextHolder requestHolder;

    /**
     * Resolves variables when starting from the root.
     *
     * @since 2.2.0
     */
    private VariableResolverFactory variableResolverFactory;

    /**
     * Constructor.
     *
     * @param requestHolder The object that holds the Tiles request context of
     * the current thread.
     * @param variableResolverFactory The resolver factory to use.
     * @since 2.2.0
     */
    public MVELAttributeEvaluator(TilesRequestContextHolder requestHolder,
            VariableResolverFactory variableResolverFactory) {
        this.requestHolder = requestHolder;
        this.variableResolverFactory = variableResolverFactory;
    }

    /** {@inheritDoc} */
    public Object evaluate(String expression, Request request) {
        if (expression == null) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("The expression parameter cannot be null");
        }
        requestHolder.setTilesRequestContext(request);
        return MVEL.eval(expression, variableResolverFactory);
    }
}