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  1. JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 4 and 5
  2. JBPAPP-7007

JBWEB-208: Failure to evaluate ternary operators in Expression Language(EL)

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    • Resolution: Obsolete
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    • TBD EAP 5
    • EAP_EWP 5.1.0
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    • RHEL 6 Workstation, JBoss EAP 5.1.0

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      1. Deploy the attached TestWS.war
      2. Access the application like this
      http://localhost:8080/TestWS

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      1. Deploy the attached TestWS.war 2. Access the application like this http://localhost:8080/TestWS
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      An issue was identified in the Expression Language parser where the evaluation of ternary operators failed, resulting in an error message like the following:
      <code>
      ERROR [org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[jboss.web].[localhost].[/TestWS].[jsp]] (http-127.0.0.1-8080-1) Servlet.service() for servlet jsp threw exception
      org.apache.el.parser.ParseException: Encountered " &lt;ILLEGAL_CHARACTER&gt; "\' "" at line 1, column 16.
      </code>

      The cause of this issue was Failure to evaluate ternary operators in Expression Language (EL). Ternary operators are now correctly evaluated and the issue has been resolved.
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      An issue was identified in the Expression Language parser where the evaluation of ternary operators failed, resulting in an error message like the following: <code> ERROR [org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[jboss.web].[localhost].[/TestWS].[jsp]] (http-127.0.0.1-8080-1) Servlet.service() for servlet jsp threw exception org.apache.el.parser.ParseException: Encountered " &lt;ILLEGAL_CHARACTER&gt; "\' "" at line 1, column 16. </code> The cause of this issue was Failure to evaluate ternary operators in Expression Language (EL). Ternary operators are now correctly evaluated and the issue has been resolved.
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      This issue is regarding a support case [1] where JBoss throws the below given error while evaluating ternary operators in Expression Language(EL) written in JSP. I found this issue there in EAP 5.1.1 as well but interestingly this issue does not occur in EAP 4.3.x .
      I have attached a sample test case, which once you deploy and hit the application like this (http://localhost:8080/TestWS) it throws the following ERROR.

      2011-07-27 12:34:51,197 ERROR [org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[jboss.web].[localhost].[/TestWS].[jsp]] (http-127.0.0.1-8080-1) Servlet.service() for servlet jsp threw exception
      org.apache.el.parser.ParseException: Encountered " <ILLEGAL_CHARACTER> "\' "" at line 1, column 16.
      Was expecting one of:
      <INTEGER_LITERAL> ...
      <FLOATING_POINT_LITERAL> ...
      <STRING_LITERAL> ...
      "true" ...
      "false" ...
      "null" ...
      "(" ...
      ")" ...
      "!" ...
      "not" ...
      "empty" ...
      "-" ...
      <IDENTIFIER> ...

      at org.apache.el.parser.ELParser.generateParseException(ELParser.java:2142)
      at org.apache.el.parser.ELParser.jj_consume_token(ELParser.java:2024)
      ......

      As per the bug opened for the same issue faced in Apache Tomcat, as mentioned in the following URL [2], the issue has been fixed and the fix has been included in Apache Tomcat version 6.0.23 onwards.
      There exists a JIRA [3] where for similar issue we are rebasing to Version 6.0.21 , hence I am opening this fresh JIRA so that a patch could be provided for the existing users of EAP 5.x and also this change could be included into EAP 5.1.2 as well.

      [1] https://c.na7.visual.force.com/apex/Case_View?id=500A0000007BrQwIAK&sfdc.override=1
      [2] https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=48112
      [3] https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBPAPP-6382

        1. TestWS.war
          371 kB
          Musharraf Hussain

              rhn-engineering-jclere Jean-Frederic Clere
              rhn-support-mhussain Musharraf Hussain
              Russell Dickenson Russell Dickenson (Inactive)
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