[forge-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (FORGE-1002) Faces scaffold should treat properties lacking suitable converters differently

Faces scaffold should treat properties lacking suitable converters differently ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Key: FORGE-1002 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-1002 Project: Forge Issue Type: Feature Request Components: Scaffold Affects Versions: 1.3.2.Final Reporter: Vineet Reynolds Fix For: 2.x Future This is from the [Sakila-H2 model|https://github.com/maxandersen/sakila-h2]. The {{Staff}} JPA entity generated using the Forge Hibernate Tools plugin, contains a {{byte[]}} property in the form of a {{picture}}. The property is rendered as a {{h:inputText}} widget in the create/edit screens and as a {{h:outputText}} widget in the view screen. This results in errors like the following being reported during operations in such screens: {{Conversion Error setting value '' for 'null Converter'.}} Since a default converter cannot be applied, mostly due to the possibility of changing semantics of such properties across applications, it would be better to * either omit such properties for functional scaffolds, * or generate converters for every such type. * or use more appropriate widgets (like a file upload widget) that can operate on such data types. Also see the TicketMonster model, where a {{long[][]}} property is present in the {{SectionAllocation}} entity.