Re: Expressions module, support of Strings

> https://lists.apache.org/thread/xdjt7rlsmoy7bx7ctffxvsmh91khlz6v

Thanks for the detailed response, Uwe!

On Wed, May 7, 2025 at 2:55 PM David Smiley <[email protected]> wrote:

> I've been looking at the Expressions module, a really impressive piece of
> work!
>
> The "JavaScript" sub-package only appears to support an extreme subset of
> JavaScript, one where the only data type is a double.  I don't see that it
> supports Strings/text, to include passing Strings to methods and resolving
> String data from a binding.  Can someone confirm this?  What would it take
> to expand that?
>
> I can see that Javascript.g4 (Antlr grammar) references a "STRING" but
> can't make out if/how it's used in JavaScriptCompiler.
>
> ~ David Smiley
> Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley
>