Re: [jsr-314-open] Coercion in the EL

On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 4:49 AM, Martin Marinschek <mmarinschek(a)apache.org&gt; wrote: > > >> Right, I agree with you. I'm saying that this is silly behavior. > >> Either it should leave null alone or choose to convert it only *if* > >> the expected-type is a primitive (in this case a primitive boolean). > > > > +1 > > I can certainly do so - however, I don't think that I will get any > response amounting to this being fixed. > > Do you guys think we should fix this in the JSF implementations, by > passing in java.lang.Object to the underlying EL expression, and doing > the coercion ourselves? We - most of the time - wrap the > value-expression in a Facelets TagValueExpression anyways, so we could > certainly do this! If the RI team agrees, I can certainly give word > out to the MyFaces team discussing if that is reasonable to us as > well. I think it would be more reasonable to try to handle this ourselves. As you mentioned, there is already a layer in between, so it's not like this is a one off solution. To be honest, I'm on the fence, but I also want to get rid of annoyances sooner rather than later and that makes me lean towards a fix in JSF. -Dan -- Dan Allen Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat | Author of Seam in Action Registered Linux User #231597 http://mojavelinux.com http://mojavelinux.com/seaminaction http://www.google.com/profiles/dan.j.allen