springnet-commits

[Mark P. <mar...@us...>]

Update of /cvsroot/springnet/Spring.Net/doc/reference/src
In directory sc8-pr-cvs8.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv816

Modified Files:
	objects.xml 
Log Message:
SPRNET-865 - Add Documention for the expression attribute.

Index: objects.xml
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            can also again be any of the elements:</emphasis>
  
!           <programlisting>(object | ref | idref | list | set | dictionary |
        name-values | value | null)</programlisting>
          </para>
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            can also again be any of the elements:</emphasis>
  
!           <programlisting>(object | ref | idref | expression | list | set | dictionary |
        name-values | value | null)</programlisting>
          </para>
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        <sect3 id="objects-referencing-compound-properties">
!         <title>Compound property names</title>
        </sect3>
  
        <para>Note that compound or nested property names are perfectly legal
!       when setting object properties, as long as all components of the path
!       except the final property name are non-null. For example, in this object
!       definition:</para>
  
        <programlisting>&lt;object id="foo" type="Spring.Foo, Spring.Foo"&gt; 
    &lt;property name="bar.baz.name" value="Bingo"/&gt; 
  &lt;/object&gt;</programlisting>
      </sect2>
  
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        <sect3 id="objects-referencing-compound-properties">
!         <title>Compound property names and Spring expression
!         references</title>
        </sect3>
  
        <para>Note that compound or nested property names are perfectly legal
!       when setting object properties. Property names are interpreted using the
!       <link linkend="expressions">Spring Expression Language</link> (SpEL) and
!       therefore can leverage its many features to set property names. For
!       example, in this object definition a simple nested property name is
!       configured</para>
  
        <programlisting>&lt;object id="foo" type="Spring.Foo, Spring.Foo"&gt; 
    &lt;property name="bar.baz.name" value="Bingo"/&gt; 
  &lt;/object&gt;</programlisting>
+ 
+       <para>As an example of some alternative ways to declare the property
+       name, you can use SpEL's support for indexers to configure a Dictionary
+       key value pair as an alternative to the nested
+       <literal>&lt;dictionary&gt;</literal> element. More importantly, you can
+       use the 'expression' element to refer to a Spring expression as the
+       value of the property. Simple examples of this are shown below</para>
+ 
+       <programlisting>&lt;property name=“minValue” expression=“int.MinValue” /&gt;
+ 
+ &lt;property name=“weekFromToday” expression="DateTime.Today + 7"/&gt;</programlisting>
+ 
+       <para>Using SpEL's support for method evaluation, you can easily call
+       static method on various helper classes in your XML
+       configuraiton.</para>
      </sect2>