Sven Raddatz created BEANUTILS-473:
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Summary: Backward compatibility - copying null values to primitive
types
Key: BEANUTILS-473
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEANUTILS-473
Project: Commons BeanUtils
Issue Type: Bug
Components: Bean / Property Utils
Affects Versions: 1.9.2
Reporter: Sven Raddatz
Copying a NULL value to a primitve property in destination bean (e.g. boolean)
was silently ignored in BU 1.7.0. In 1.9.2 this is throwing an
IllegalArgumentException.
Since converters are not executed when value is null there is no way to prevent
this behaviour, making it hard to migrate from 1.7.0 to 1.9.2. The only way to
accomplish this task is to switch from primitive to non-primitive types in all
destination beans, which would result in huge testing effort.
It would be nice to either have the possibility to use convertes to handle null
values with a valid default (e.g. null = false in case of boolean) or to
globally have a switch for a "silent / lenient mode" where any exceptions
during copying are silently ignored.
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