svn commit: r505143 - /incubator/adffaces/branches/faces-1_2-070201/plugins/maven-faces-plugin/src/main/java/org/apache/myfaces/trinidadbuild/plugin/faces/GenerateJspTaglibsMojo.java

[awiner]

Author: awiner
Date: Thu Feb  8 18:32:00 2007
New Revision: 505143

URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&rev=505143
Log:
ADFFACES-377: JSF 1.2: EL binding to null Strings show up as empty strings
- Turn off EL coercion for strings

Modified:
    
incubator/adffaces/branches/faces-1_2-070201/plugins/maven-faces-plugin/src/main/java/org/apache/myfaces/trinidadbuild/plugin/faces/GenerateJspTaglibsMojo.java

Modified: 
incubator/adffaces/branches/faces-1_2-070201/plugins/maven-faces-plugin/src/main/java/org/apache/myfaces/trinidadbuild/plugin/faces/GenerateJspTaglibsMojo.java
URL: 
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/adffaces/branches/faces-1_2-070201/plugins/maven-faces-plugin/src/main/java/org/apache/myfaces/trinidadbuild/plugin/faces/GenerateJspTaglibsMojo.java?view=diff&rev=505143&r1=505142&r2=505143
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incubator/adffaces/branches/faces-1_2-070201/plugins/maven-faces-plugin/src/main/java/org/apache/myfaces/trinidadbuild/plugin/faces/GenerateJspTaglibsMojo.java
 (original)
+++ 
incubator/adffaces/branches/faces-1_2-070201/plugins/maven-faces-plugin/src/main/java/org/apache/myfaces/trinidadbuild/plugin/faces/GenerateJspTaglibsMojo.java
 Thu Feb  8 18:32:00 2007
@@ -1790,7 +1790,14 @@
   static final private Set _CAN_COERCE = new HashSet();
   static
   {
-    _CAN_COERCE.add("java.lang.String");
+    // What?  Can't coerce Strings?  How could that be?  Well, take a look at:
+    //   http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ADFFACES-377
+    // The silly coercion rules in JSP convert null to the
+    // empty string.  So it's not that we can't coerce to
+    // String, we just really, really don't want to.
+    //    _CAN_COERCE.add("java.lang.String");
+    // TODO: consider getting rid of coercion rules for
+    // all non-primitives
     _CAN_COERCE.add("java.lang.Integer");
     _CAN_COERCE.add("java.lang.Long");
     _CAN_COERCE.add("java.lang.Boolean");