SpEL: bean references in expressions [SPR-7173]

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Andy Clement opened SPR-7173 and commented

It would be nice if beans could be referenced in expressions. There is a BeanFactoryAccessor but that will only work if the context object is a bean factory. Under this jira I'm proposing we add support for @beanname where the beanname is resolved through a bean resolver registered with the evaluation context.

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Affects: 3.0.2

Issue Links:

• SEC-1723 Support use of bean names in expressions via @beanName notation

Referenced from: commits f53621a

[spring-projects-issues]

Andy Clement commented

committed. Bean names via "@foo", dotted bean names should be quoted "@'foo.bar'". Beans are looked up through the bean resolver registered on the evaluation context.

[spring-projects-issues]

Sylvain LAURENT commented

Please document this feature in the reference doc.