Method parameters only work on 'top-level' managed beans

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When using JSF 2's 'method parameters' feature:

#

{fooBean.add(42)}

The evaluation fails when trying on a child object:

#

{fooBean.foo.add(42)}

As a workaround you can use:

<ui:param name="_foo" value="#

{fooBean.foo}

"/>

{_foo.add(42)}

But this seems like it should work without needing ui:param?

See attached test case.

Copied from <http://java.net/jira/browse/JAVASERVERFACES-2254>.

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• Issue Imported From: https://github.com/javaee/uel-ri/issues/27
• Original Issue Raised By:@glassfishrobot
• Original Issue Assigned To: @glassfishrobot
• Original Issue Closed By:@glassfishrobot

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@glassfishrobot Commented Reported by @edburns

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@glassfishrobot Commented kchung said: Which version of glassfish ( and EL ) was the test ran? I built the war and deployed it in V312 and V3 trunk, and couldn't get it to render correctly in both cases. I didn't see any buttons and only get this from the response:

#

{facesContext.externalContext.request.session.servletContext.servletContextName}

Try clicking each of the buttons below. The first will fail. The second will succeed.

Last Eval:

Looks like EL expressions were not evaluated.

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@glassfishrobot Commented kchung said: Ah, I realized that I need to use http://localhost:8080/elparam-1.0/index.jsf to run it!

On V312, and v3 trunk, both seems to run OK. That is, both buttons worked. I don't have the latest glassfish source, but EL should be current.

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@glassfishrobot Commented kennardconsulting said: Confirmed. This does indeed appear to have been fixed somewhere along the line. It is broken in Tomcat 7.0.21, but fixed in Tomcat 7.0.25.

Would it be worth figuring out how this happened? It's not JSF (I used 2.1.3 both times) or el-api.jar (both Tomcats use 2.2.FR), so I guess it must be in the EL implementation somewhere?

Could you help get some regression tests around this?

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@glassfishrobot Commented File: UEL-27-reproducer-ELParamsTest.zip Attached By: @edburns

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@glassfishrobot Commented This issue was imported from java.net JIRA UEL-27

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@glassfishrobot Commented Marked as cannot reproduce on Tuesday, January 24th 2012, 12:17:34 pm