As far as I can remember, these two if statements where a fix for making MyFaces more RI compatible, but I'm not fully sure. Can you please examine the RI behaviour? Although there is nothing in the spec, these things might me necessary to keep compatibilty.
-Manfred 2005/8/8, Mike Kienenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I posted this last Friday on the user list, but maybe it should have > went to the dev list instead. > > I notice that Myfaces disallows custom String (and Object) converters. > > === > static Converter findUIOutputConverter(FacesContext facesContext, > UIOutput component) > if (String.class.equals(valueType)) return null; //No > converter needed for String type > if (Object.class.equals(valueType)) return null; //There is > no converter for Object class > === > > I don't see anything in the spec that requires this restriction. > > My use case is that I would like to create a java.lang.String > converter that automatically converts all empty strings to null. > > Comments? >
