Field references should support value attribute
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Key: SEAMXML-21
URL: https://jira.jboss.org/browse/SEAMXML-21
Project: Seam XML Configuration
Issue Type: Feature Request
Affects Versions: 3.0.0.Alpha3
Reporter: Dan Allen
Field references should support a value attribute if the field type is a
convertable type* (Seam XML knows how to turn it into an object). This will
drastically simplify the appearance and verbosity of a field definitions,
particularly virtual fields.
Consider the configuration of the default locale as an example. Presently, it
would be configured as follows:
<String>
<Produces/>
<lc:DefaultLocale/>
<value>fr</value>
</String>
Since String is a convertable type, the proposed change would allow it to be
simplified to:
<String value="fr">
<Produces/>
<lc:DefaultLocale/>
</String>
Another example would be assigning an numeric value to a bean field. Presently,
the configuration is:
<x:Account>
<x:balance>
<value>100</value>
</x:balance>
</x:Account>
With support for the value attribute, this could be simplified to:
<x:Account>
<x:balance value="100"/>
</x:Account>
If the type being configured has a value property, then of course the value
attribute would assign the value of property named "value" instead of being
treated as the overall value of the field.
* Examples of convertable types are string, date, number, etc.
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