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Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 15:26:43 -0800 (PST)
From: "Yung-Lin Ho (JIRA)" <commons-dev@jakarta.apache.org>
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Subject: [jira] Created: (JELLY-283) Code block inside a ForEach loop should
 own its own variable scope(content)
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Code block inside a ForEach loop should own its own variable scope(content)
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                 Key: JELLY-283
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JELLY-283
             Project: Commons Jelly
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: core / taglib.core
    Affects Versions: 1.0
            Reporter: Yung-Lin Ho


Inside a ForEach loop, because jelly does not create a new JellyContent for a forEach loop. Any new variable declared inside this forEach loop will be populate to the current content.

For example:

<j:set var="test" value="a">
<j:forEach begin="0" end="1">
  <!-- overwrite 'test' -->
  <j:set var="test" value="b">
</j:forEach>

<!-- now, the value of variable test is 'b' -->

Ideally, forEach loop should have its own variable scope. Any new variable defined in this scope should not be populated to outer code block.
People can avoid this problem by choosing variable names carefully. 

However, they are few tags are suffering from this issue. For example, the <http:parameter> uses a List to keep all the parameters. If you
have a code looks like this:

<j:forEach begin="0" end="2" indexVar="idx">
  <http:post url="http://google.com/search">
    <http:parameter name="q" value="${idx}" />
  </http:post>
</j:forEach>

It is going to send the following three requests to google
 -  http://google.com/search?q=0
 -  http://google.com/search?q=0&q=1
 -  http://google.com/search?q=0&q=1&q=2


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