[jsr-314-open-mirror] [jsr-314-open] Coercion in the EL

[Kito Mann]

29, 2010 at 5:03 PM, Martin Marinschek <mmarinschek at apache.org> wrote:

> Hi Kito,
>
> yes, it is the same. And yes, it affects numbers as well. Please
> update the description!


Will do.


> Also, I think Ed´s comment about the
> INTERPRET_EMPTY_STRING_SUBMITTED_VALUES_AS_NULL parameter is not
> related to this bug - at least AFAI can see.
>

Actually, it is -- it's related to the end user issue that I ran into, where
there's a backing bean with a Number of Boolean property associated with an
input control. I think my workaround is simply to write a PhaseListener to
do this.  It doesn't address the issues you're seeing from a component
developer's perspective, though.

>
> best regards,
>
> Martin
>
> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 9:21 PM, Kito Mann <kito.mann at virtua.com> wrote:
> > I just ran into this while upgrading an application from MyFaces 1.1 to
> > Mojarra 1.2. In MyFaces 1.1, empty strings were converted to null for
> Long
> > properties in a backing bean. Now, they are converted to 0. I found
> several
> > postings about this issue, culminating in this bug:
> > https://jsp-spec-public.dev.java.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=183.
> >
> > So, unless I'm missing something, this issue is really the same as
> > https://uel.dev.java.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=12. If everyone agrees,
> I'll
> > go ahead and update the description accordingly, since the description
> > currently mentions Booleans only, not number values.
> >
> > Are there any plans to address this issue in 1.2 branches of the
> > implementations?
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> > On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Andy Schwartz <andy.schwartz at oracle.com
> >
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> On 3/4/10 3:01 AM, Martin Marinschek wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Optionally, we can try to solve this in the new spec-revision of the
> >>> Unified-EL - for which work is already being started on. That would of
> >>> course be the easier way out.
> >>>
> >>
> >> One option might be to allow the JSF implementations to provide this
> >> functionality in an implementation-specification way (eg. expose a
> context
> >> parameter) as a short-term solution that can be exposed now independent
> of
> >> any spec changes.  Then, once the new revision of UEL is available
> (which I
> >> am sure will address this issue), we can pick that up as our standard
> >> solution.
> >>
> >> Andy
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
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