Although EvaluationContext defines the API for setting and looking up
variables, the internals of the Spring Expression Language (SpEL)
actually provide explicit support for registering functions as
variables.
This is self-evident in the two registerFunction() variants in
StandardEvaluationContext; however, functions can also be registered as
variables when using the SimpleEvaluationContext.
Since custom functions are also viable in use cases involving the
SimpleEvaluationContext, this commit documents that functions may be
registered in a SimpleEvaluationContext via setVariable().
This commit also explicitly documents the "function as a variable"
behavior in the class-level Javadoc for both StandardEvaluationContext
and SimpleEvaluationContext, as well as in the reference manual.
Closes gh-32258
This commit focuses on improving the AOT section on programmatic
registration of additional beans. This makes it more clear that a
`BeanDefinitionRegistry` must be used and that singletons are not
processed.
Closes gh-32240
Closes gh-32241
As a bit of trivia, Jakarta EL was originally Unified EL, which was
originally JSP EL, which was originally SPEL.
SPEL: Simplest Possible Expression Language
SpEL: Spring Expression Language
So one could say that SPEL inspired SpEL.
If multiple request mapping annotations are discovered, Spring MVC and
Spring WebFlux now log a warning similar to the following (without
newlines).
Multiple @RequestMapping annotations found on
void org.example.MyController.put(), but only the first will be used:
[
@org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.PutMapping(consumes={}, headers={}, name="", params={}, path={"/put"}, produces={}, value={"/put"}),
@org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.PostMapping(consumes={}, headers={}, name="", params={}, path={"/put"}, produces={}, value={"/put"})
]
Closes gh-31962
Sam Brannen
Sébastien Deleuze
Stéphane Nicoll
Olga MaciaszekSharma
Spencer Gibb
John Gesimondo
anil.senocak
Yanming Zhou
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