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EE4J Compatible Implementation for Jakarta Faces API
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*
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* terms of the Eclipse Public License v. 2.0, which is available at
* http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0.
*
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* Licenses when the conditions for such availability set forth in the
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* version 2 with the GNU Classpath Exception, which is available at
* https://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/license.html.
*
* SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0 OR GPL-2.0 WITH Classpath-exception-2.0
*/
package jakarta.faces.el;
import jakarta.faces.context.FacesContext;
/**
*
* VariableResolver represents a pluggable mechanism for resolving a top-level variable reference at
* evaluation time.
*
*
* @deprecated This has been replaced by {@link jakarta.el.ELResolver} when operating with a null
* base
argument.
*/
@Deprecated
public abstract class VariableResolver {
/**
*
* Resolve the specified variable name, and return the corresponding object, if any; otherwise, return
* null
.
*
*
* @param context {@link FacesContext} against which to resolve this variable name
* @param name Name of the variable to be resolved
*
* @throws EvaluationException if an exception is thrown while resolving the variable name (the thrown exception must be
* included as the cause
property of this exception)
* @throws NullPointerException if context
or name
is null
*
* @return the result of the resolution
*/
public abstract Object resolveVariable(FacesContext context, String name) throws EvaluationException;
}