The Spring Expression Language (SpEL) currently cannot invoke a varargs MethodHandle
function with zero variable arguments.
Attempting to do so results in a SpelEvaluationException
with an INCORRECT_NUMBER_OF_ARGUMENTS_TO_FUNCTION
message.
For example, given a MethodHandle
registered as a function named format
that accepts (String, Object...)
, the SpEL expression #format('x', 42)
is supported, but the expression #format('x')
fails even though the variable arguments are not required.
The following assertion in our test suite should therefore not actually fail due to a SpelEvaluationException
with an INCORRECT_NUMBER_OF_ARGUMENTS_TO_FUNCTION
message but rather due to an exception thrown from java.lang.String.formatted(Object...)
, which that #message()
function invokes on the first argument.
https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/blob/c6b20c04c24aa4689f7c5387bdf141301ab989d5/spring-expression/src/test/java/org/springframework/expression/spel/VariableAndFunctionTests.java#L59