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>
>
> On Thursday, May 17, 2012 8:47:22 PM UTC+2, Brandon Donnelson wrote:
>>
>> True that would fix the flush. But I'm wondering if this isn't a symptom 
>> of an earlier problem. I'm thinking if the list is null on instantiation 
>> the list backing doesn't get setup properly. So the question I would have 
>> is if I add an item, will the list no longer be null and it seems to me 
>> that it will still be null. So I think to fix the problem might be to 
>> instantiate the list differently as well.
>
>
> You won't be able to add an item, as ListEditor#getList() will return 
> 'null' if 'null' was passed to setValue().
>
> Originally, when asked about 'null', BobV said you should use an 
> OptionalFieldEditor in between the parent editor and the ListEditor (and 
> then months later he added the 'null' handling in ListEditor#setValue). In 
> this case, I think the OptionalFieldEditor is the way to go: if you want to 
> "add a value to a 'null' list", then first make it "non-null" by calling 
> the OptionalFieldEditor's setValue with an empty list, then add an element 
> to ListEditor#getList() (which will then be non-null). I suppose, as an 
> "optimization", you could also directly set a non-empty/populated list to 
> the OptionalFieldEditor.
>

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