Markus Stahl created BEANUTILS-454:
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Summary: copyProperties() throws conversion exception for null Date
Key: BEANUTILS-454
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEANUTILS-454
Project: Commons BeanUtils
Issue Type: Bug
Affects Versions: 1.8.0
Reporter: Markus Stahl
Priority: Critical
Fix For: 1.8.4
This issue had been reported earlier and rejected too soon.
Since 1.8.0, BeanUtils.copyProperties suddenly throws an Exception, if the
property is of type Date. It did not do so in prior releases, that's why
properly running software is nowadays broken. There is a workaround if the
BeanUtils are used in my own code, but if it is used in 3rd party code, I am
screwed.
Please, treat null for Date the same as null for any other type and copy null
from source to destination.
For more reasons, see the comments of people who move now to new releases of
BeanUtils facing the same problem. The issue gets more and more attention, but
I think, nobody except the reporters are notified about it. Therefore this
issue.
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