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package jakarta.faces.el;
import jakarta.faces.context.FacesContext;
/**
*
* MethodBinding is an object that can be used to call an arbitrary public method, on an instance that
* is acquired by evaluatng the leading portion of a method binding expression via a {@link ValueBinding}. An immutable
* {@link MethodBinding} for a particular method binding expression can be acquired by calling the
* createMethodBinding() method of the {@link jakarta.faces.application.Application} instance for this web
* application.
*
*
*
* @deprecated This has been replaced by {@link jakarta.el.MethodExpression}.
*/
@Deprecated
public abstract class MethodBinding {
/**
*
* Return the return value (if any) resulting from a call to the method identified by this method binding expression,
* passing it the specified parameters, relative to the specified {@link FacesContext}.
*
*
* @param context {@link FacesContext} for the current request
* @param params Array of parameters to be passed to the called method, or null for no parameters
*
* @throws EvaluationException if an exception is thrown by the called method (the thrown exception must be included as
* the cause property of this exception)
* @throws MethodNotFoundException if no suitable method can be found
* @throws NullPointerException if context is null
*
* @return the result of the invocation
*/
public abstract Object invoke(FacesContext context, Object params[]) throws EvaluationException, MethodNotFoundException;
/**
*
* Return the Java class representing the return type from the method identified by this method binding expression.
*
*
* @param context {@link FacesContext} for the current request
*
* @throws MethodNotFoundException if no suitable method can be found
* @throws NullPointerException if context is null
*
* @return the type of the return value
*/
public abstract Class getType(FacesContext context) throws MethodNotFoundException;
/**
*
* Return the (possibly null) expression String, with leading and trailing delimiters, from which this
* MethodBinding was built. The default implementation returns null.
*
*
* @return the expression string
*/
public String getExpressionString() {
return null;
}
}