jakartaee
Add Elvis Operator to Simplfy Null Handling
eg. if email is null, returns Not Found instead, else returns email property.
customer.email?:'Not Found'
I have an implementation of this in the current Tomcat 12 development branch. You can download SNAPSHOT build a standard distribution from: https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/snapshots/org/apache/tomcat/tomcat/12.0.0-M1-SNAPSHOT/
Embedded and individual JARs are also available.
If you could try that and and confirm whether or not it works for you that would be great. I can then work on the changes required to the specification document and some TCK tests.
It has been over a month without feedback. The operator works as expected for me so I am going to proceed with the spec updates and TCK tests for 6.1.
The functionality that has been requested here is the Null coalescing operator (??) not the Elvis operator (?:).
Given the similarities, I am going to implement both.