Oliver Heger created BEANUTILS-445:
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Summary: Converters can return an invalid result object if a
default value is set
Key: BEANUTILS-445
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEANUTILS-445
Project: Commons BeanUtils
Issue Type: Bug
Components: ConvertUtils & Converters
Affects Versions: 1.8.3
Reporter: Oliver Heger
Fix For: LATER THAN 1.8.4
For BeanUtils converters derived from {{AbstractConverter}} it is possible to
set a default value. If the default flag is set, this value is returned for
*null* input, but also if a conversion to an unsupported type is attempted (in
this case, a conversion of the default value to the target class is tried, but
if this fails, the default value is returned directly). This causes the
converter to return an object of another class than requested.
IMHO this is a source of ClassCastExceptions and should be changed. A converter
should never return an object of a different type than the requested target
class. So either perform a successful conversion (if necessary, convert the
default value to the target class) or throw an exception.
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