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Hubert Grininger commented on BEANUTILS-387:
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I'd like to back Marcin's point here.. For me the sole reason to use
BeanUtils.copyProperties is copy over all the properties from object A to
object B, if it's null in A it should be null in B as well.
Introducing the need for some boilerplate code really make things worse.
> [beanutils] copyProperties() throws a ConversionException : No value
> specified for 'Date' when the field is a java.util.Date with a null value
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>
> Key: BEANUTILS-387
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEANUTILS-387
> Project: Commons BeanUtils
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Bean / Property Utils
> Affects Versions: 1.8.3
> Reporter: Daniel Marchese
>
> We have migrated the library from version 1.6.0 to 1.8.0 and the
> copyProperties() method fails when copying a java.util.Date attribute with a
> null value.
> Here is a simple testcase :
> {code}
> public class Test {
> private Date date;
>
> public Date getDate() { return date; }
> public void setDate(Date date) { this.date = date; }
> public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
> Test dest = new Test();
> Test source = new Test();
> BeanUtils.copyProperties(dest, source);
> }
> }
> {code}
> As a workaround, we can do this :
> ConvertUtils.register(new DateConverter(null), Date.class);
> When can also use PropertyUtils.copyProperties() because in this case no
> conversion is required but the impact is unknown on our big application.
> The problem is that there seems to be a regression between version 1.6.0 and
> 1.8.0.
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