Intended as a future extensibility point, provides a way for the parser to redirect into a static method library of helpers
Currently, only one method is available - ContainsAny
Functions like string.Contains but uses needles from a List<string>
var values = new Dictionary<string,object>();
var keywords = new List<string>();
keywords.Add("Five");
keywords.Add("Four");
values.Add("keywords",keywords);
var items = @Model.Children.Where("Name.ContainsAny(keywords)", values);
Allows this syntax to work now:
@Model.Children.Where("updateDate < DateTime.Now.AddDays(-2)")
This didn't work previously in 4.7beta because updateDate was still boxed as an object and object < DateTime can't be implicitly converted
@Model.Children.Where("bodyText.Contains('ipsum')") still doesn't work because the parser doesn't know how to invoke .Contains on a LambdaExpression (yet)