test coverage. now > 95%

org.springframework.expression/src/main/java/org/springframework/expression/spel/SpelExpression.java

@@ -119,8 +119,7 @@ public class SpelExpression implements Expression {
 	 * {@inheritDoc}
 	 */
 	public Class getValueType(EvaluationContext context) throws EvaluationException {
-		// TODO is this a legal implementation? The null return value could be very unhelpful. See other getValueType()
+		// TODO both getValueType() methods could use getValueInternal and return a type descriptor from the resultant TypedValue
-		// also.
 		Object value = getValue(context);
 		return (value != null ? value.getClass() : null);
 	}

org.springframework.expression/src/main/java/org/springframework/expression/spel/ast/SpelNodeImpl.java

@@ -40,10 +40,8 @@ public abstract class SpelNodeImpl implements SpelNode, CommonTypeDescriptors {
 	
 	public SpelNodeImpl(int pos, SpelNodeImpl... operands) {
 		this.pos = pos;
-		if (pos==0) {
+		// pos combines start and end so can never be zero because tokens cannot be zero length
-			// pos embodies start and end so can never be zero because tokens cannot be zero length
+		assert pos!=0;
-			throw new IllegalStateException("Node cannot have zero position: "+this.getClass());
-		}
 		if (operands!=null && operands.length>0) {
 			this.children = operands;
 		}

org.springframework.expression/src/test/java/org/springframework/expression/spel/SetValueTests.java

@@ -55,6 +55,11 @@ public class SetValueTests extends ExpressionTestCase {
 		setValue("inventions[0]", "Just the telephone");
 	}
 
+	@Test
+	public void testErrorCase() {
+		setValueExpectError("3=4", null);
+	}
+
 	@Test
 	public void testSetElementOfNull() {
 		setValueExpectError("new org.springframework.expression.spel.testresources.Inventor().inventions[1]",SpelMessages.CANNOT_INDEX_INTO_NULL_VALUE);

org.springframework.expression/src/test/java/org/springframework/expression/spel/standard/SpelParserTests.java

@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 import junit.framework.Assert;
 
 import org.junit.Test;
+import org.springframework.expression.EvaluationContext;
 import org.springframework.expression.EvaluationException;
 import org.springframework.expression.ExpressionException;
 import org.springframework.expression.ParseException;
@@ -26,6 +27,7 @@ import org.springframework.expression.spel.SpelNode;
 import org.springframework.expression.spel.SpelParseException;
 import org.springframework.expression.spel.ast.OpAnd;
 import org.springframework.expression.spel.ast.OpOr;
+import org.springframework.expression.spel.support.StandardEvaluationContext;
 
 
 public class SpelParserTests {
@@ -38,6 +40,23 @@ public class SpelParserTests {
 		Assert.assertNotNull(expr.getAST());
 		Assert.assertEquals(2,expr.getValue());
 		Assert.assertEquals(Integer.class,expr.getValueType());
+		Assert.assertEquals(2,expr.getAST().getValue(null));
+	}
+	
+	@Test
+	public void valueType() throws Exception {
+		SpelExpressionParser parser = new SpelExpressionParser();
+		EvaluationContext ctx = new StandardEvaluationContext();
+		Class c = parser.parse("2").getValueType();
+		Assert.assertEquals(Integer.class,c);
+		c = parser.parse("12").getValueType(ctx);
+		Assert.assertEquals(Integer.class,c);
+		c = parser.parse("null").getValueType();
+		Assert.assertNull(c);
+		c = parser.parse("null").getValueType(ctx);
+		Assert.assertNull(c);
+		Object o = parser.parse("null").getValue(ctx,Integer.class);
+		Assert.assertNull(o);
 	}
 
 	@Test