From 51c9a7eec6679bb4065397f158a39c8e48ece796 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: markt <markt@13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68>
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:10:06 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fix bug 43656. coerceToType() modified some values. Patch
 provided by Nils Eckert.

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tomcat/trunk@649638 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
---
 java/org/apache/el/lang/ELSupport.java | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/java/org/apache/el/lang/ELSupport.java b/java/org/apache/el/lang/ELSupport.java
index 18a53bc86..c638c6ddd 100644
--- a/java/org/apache/el/lang/ELSupport.java
+++ b/java/org/apache/el/lang/ELSupport.java
@@ -334,7 +334,8 @@ public class ELSupport {
 
     public final static Object coerceToType(final Object obj, final Class type)
             throws IllegalArgumentException {
-        if (type == null || Object.class.equals(type)) {
+        if (type == null || Object.class.equals(type) ||
+                type.equals(obj.getClass())) {
             return obj;
         }
         if (String.class.equals(type)) {
-- 
2.11.0