public void testDataConverterStrictMode() throws Exception { OptimizerFactory.setDefaultOptimizer("ASM"); DataConversion.addConversionHandler(Date.class, new MVELDateCoercion()); ParserContext ctx = new ParserContext(); ctx.addImport("Cheese", Cheese.class); ctx.setStrongTyping(true); ctx.setStrictTypeEnforcement(true); Locale.setDefault(Locale.US); Cheese expectedCheese = new Cheese(); expectedCheese.setUseBy(new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMM-yyyy").parse("10-Jul-1974")); ExpressionCompiler compiler = new ExpressionCompiler("c = new Cheese(); c.useBy = '10-Jul-1974'; return c"); Cheese actualCheese = (Cheese) executeExpression(compiler.compile(ctx), createTestMap()); assertEquals(expectedCheese.getUseBy(), actualCheese.getUseBy()); }