uPortal IRC Logs-2012-03-09

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Last updated: Mar 09, 2012
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[13:12:28 CST(-0600)] <drewwills> Yea! SpEL supports the elvis operator

[13:13:45 CST(-0600)] <athena> SpEL is super cool

[13:14:06 CST(-0600)] <athena> i really like it

[13:16:02 CST(-0600)] <drewwills> what SpEL has over EL (as in JSPs) just transformed my task from a dull, bandwidth-intensive chore to a simple tweak

[13:16:27 CST(-0600)] <athena> yeah it's completely terrific

[13:16:35 CST(-0600)] <athena> and the fact that you can use it in annotations now is huge

[13:16:58 CST(-0600)] <drewwills> oh that's good... can you give an illustrative example?

[13:18:17 CST(-0600)] <drewwills> here's mine (not 100% sure it's correct yet): <entry key="AUTHENTICATION_ATTEMPTED" value="request.nativeRequest.session.getAttribute('up_authenticationAttempted') ?: 'false'" />

[13:18:22 CST(-0600)] <athena> you can actually use them w/ spring security now too

[13:18:22 CST(-0600)] <athena> (smile)

[13:18:25 CST(-0600)] <athena> http://nonrepeatable.blogspot.com/2010/04/spring-security-30-and-spring-el.html

[13:18:36 CST(-0600)] <athena> and now that we have spring security permissions in uportal . . . (smile)

[13:18:50 CST(-0600)] <drewwills> yes, it works... not i'm sure

[13:18:54 CST(-0600)] <drewwills> now*

[13:19:09 CST(-0600)] <drewwills> that is insanely cool

[13:19:38 CST(-0600)] <athena> i know!!

[13:19:44 CST(-0600)] <athena> and you can do really cool filtering stuff too

[13:19:55 CST(-0600)] <drewwills> who ever imagined it would work out well not to be able to do session.getAttribute('foo') in a JSP?

[13:19:58 CST(-0600)] <athena> so you could do a post authorize that filters out person results the user doesn't have permissions to see, or something like that

[13:20:33 CST(-0600)] <drewwills> i have to run to lunch now, but glad this issue is in hand

[13:21:38 CST(-0600)] <athena> awesome (smile)