Behavior of static and dynamic expressions in stream queries
A static expression is an expression that refers to only static elements. Static elements are:
Constants (defined with the
constant keyword)
Literal values, for example:
from a in all A() within 20.0 select sum(a.i);
Primitive types that are local variables, for example:
integer width := 10;
from a in all A() retain width select sum(a.i);
The correlator can fully evaluate static expressions when it creates the stream query.
A dynamic expression is an expression that refers to one or more dynamic elements. In a query, the value of a dynamic expression can change throughout the lifetime of that query. Consequently, the correlator must re-evaluate each dynamic expression at appropriate points in the execution of the query.
Dynamic elements are:
Any reference type
Any monitor global variable
Where the stream query is created by an action on an event, the members of that event
Any action, method or plug-in call
The correlator fully evaluates an event template in a stream source template when the correlator creates the query. For example, consider the following two queries:
from a in all A(id=currentMatch) select a;
from a in all A() where id = currentMatch select a;
During execution, if currentMatch is a global variable, a change to the value of currentMatch affects the behavior of the second query but it does not affect the behavior of the first query.
