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The Spring Expression Language (SpEL) is a simple and powerful expression language which helps to query and manipulate objects at runtime. The following example shows creating inline lists using SpEL.

File Name :	com/bethecoder/tutorials/spring3/tests/spel/InlineListTest.java
Author :	Sudhakar KV
Email :	[email protected]


package com.bethecoder.tutorials.spring3.tests.spel;



import java.util.List;



import org.springframework.expression.ExpressionParser;

import org.springframework.expression.spel.standard.SpelExpressionParser;



public class InlineListTest {



  /**

   * @param args

   */

  public static void main(String[] args) {



    ExpressionParser parser = new SpelExpressionParser();

    

    List numbers = parser.parseExpression("{1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6}").getValue(List.class);

    System.out.println(numbers);



    List strings = parser.parseExpression("{'one', 'two', 'three', 'four'}").getValue(List.class);

    System.out.println(strings);



    List listOfLists = (List) parser.parseExpression("{{'a','b', 'c'},{'d','e', 'f'}}").getValue(); 

    System.out.println(listOfLists);

  }



}

Inline Lists