From 3788a84b8ec7fd6cc63f4b60098302481a39d8ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andy Clement <aclement@vmware.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:43:50 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] for Keith and his binder: fault in support for maps (if
 attempt made to reference into null map) and for general objects, e.g.
 foo.bar if foo was null, attempt to dynamically build foo.

---
 .../org/springframework/expression/spel/ExpressionState.java  | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/org.springframework.expression/src/main/java/org/springframework/expression/spel/ExpressionState.java b/org.springframework.expression/src/main/java/org/springframework/expression/spel/ExpressionState.java
index d869e3c7d8..bca705053e 100644
--- a/org.springframework.expression/src/main/java/org/springframework/expression/spel/ExpressionState.java
+++ b/org.springframework.expression/src/main/java/org/springframework/expression/spel/ExpressionState.java
@@ -217,8 +217,8 @@ public class ExpressionState {
 		return (configuration & SpelExpressionParserConfiguration.GrowListsOnIndexBeyondSize)!=0;
 	}
 
-	public boolean configuredToCreateCollection() {
-		return (configuration & SpelExpressionParserConfiguration.CreateListsOnAttemptToIndexIntoNull)!=0;
+	public boolean configuredToCreateCollectionOrMap() {
+		return (configuration & SpelExpressionParserConfiguration.CreateObjectIfAttemptToReferenceNull)!=0;
 	}
 
 }
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