> Does anybody know how to hook up w\other struts developers here
at java one? I couldn`t make the monday get together.
Paul Smith
>
> I think the addition of pluggable converters in ConvertUtils on 3/18 has
> changed the way Struts handles empty form fields that map to primitive
> Wrapper bean properties. The default IntegerConverter uses a default value
> of Integer(0) instead of null.
>
> This is a fairly significant problem because it's not backwards compatible
> with Struts 1.0. I often store id#s in hidden form fields that map to a Long
> or Integer property on the serverside bean. If the hidden field is empty ""
> in the html then Struts used to populate the setBlah(Integer) method with a
> null, now it passes a zero. That causes me to try an update of entity 0
> instead of adding a new entity, for example.
>
> I modified the struts-exercise-taglib to add a test to demonstrate this
> problem. Below are the patches to the two files that would need to be
> changed.
>
> -- add to struts-exercise-taglib html-setters.jsp
>
> <tr>
> <th align="right">integerProperty</th>
> <td align="left">
> <html:text property="integerProperty" size="32"/>
> </td>
> <th align="right">nested.integerProperty</th>
> <td align="left">
> <html:text property="nested.integerProperty" size="32"/>
> </td>
> </tr>
>
>
> -- add to TestBean in .../webapp/exercise
>
> /**
> * An integer property.
> */
> private Integer integerProperty = new Integer(123);
>
> public Integer getIntegerProperty() {
> return (this.integerProperty);
> }
>
> public void setIntegerProperty(Integer integerProperty) {
> this.integerProperty = integerProperty;
> }
>
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