[dna-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Created: (DNA-336) JcrValue.asType(int desiredPropertyType) skips a number of valid conversions and has duplicate logic

[Randall Hauch (JIRA)]

JcrValue.asType(int desiredPropertyType) skips a number of valid conversions and has duplicate logic
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                 Key: DNA-336
                 URL: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/DNA-336
             Project: DNA
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: JCR
    Affects Versions: 0.3
            Reporter: Randall Hauch
            Assignee: Randall Hauch
             Fix For: 0.4


Currently the JcrValue implementation has a method "asType(int propertyType)" that creates a new JcrValue object with the original values converted to the specified type. There are a couple of cases that are missed:

1) The code does not do any conversion to LONG of DOUBLE.  However, according to the JCR 1.0 specification, it is possible to convert these if the current type is a STRING, BINARY, DATE, DOUBLE, or LONG.  
2) The code does not do any conversion to REFERENCE.  However, according to the JCR 1.0 specification, it is possible to convert these if the current type is a STRING, NAME, or BINARY.
3) The conversion to a number of types exclude going to BINARY
4) The conversion to NAME and PATH both have somewhat complex logic to determine if a conversion is possible, even the current value factories do the same checks.  The code should just let the value factories do the checks.

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