Hello,
I just ran into a 'gotcha' and was curious if it's been documented somewhere and I just missed it.
The problem is that I simply had the incorrect type specified for a page property, eg:
<property-specification name="myProperty" type="my.package.WrongClassName" />
where it was supposed to be:
<property-specification name="myProperty" type="my.package.CorrectClassName" />
being far too reliant on Java compile-time type checking, I was expecting Tapestry to throw an error here so when I started getting null pointers it didn't even cross my mind that the type might be wrong. Eventually I figured out the type was wrong and that Tapestry was simply setting the value to null since it didn't match the specified type. I've hit this once or twice before, but it isn't sinking in yet, maybe this time.
Makes sense, I usually like a quiet fail in my html, but I think of the .page file more like java code than html, so I'd kinda like it to fail.
Is there a way to change this behavior easily?
No big deal really, just curious if this is a real 'gotcha' or if I just missed a paragraph in the book.
thanks,
Ryan Owens
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