I *finally* had time to download and build Shale from source and I did
notice that error(UICompnenet, String) is indeed fixed (thank you again,
Ronald Holshausen:)).. So anyway i decided to make parallel changes to
another of my backing bean's attributes.
So my jsp has this:
<h:inputText id="userName" required="true"
value="#{registration.userName}" />
..
<h:inputSecret id="password" required="true"
binding="#{registration.password}" />
My backingbean RegistrationBean has the following:
private HtmlInputText userName = null;
private HtmlInputSecret password = null;
with appropriate getters and setters.
However when i try to show that jsp, I get the foll. error:
javax.faces.el.EvaluationException: Cannot set value for expression
'#{registration.userName}' to a new value of type java.lang.String
...
Caused by: javax.servlet.jsp.el.ELException: Attempt to convert String
"Geeta" to type "javax.faces.component.html.HtmlInputText", but there is
no PropertyEditor for that type
I suppose I can convince myself why this is a problem - and sure enough if
I change userName to be a String instead everything is hunky-dory.. But
here's my question. If I change userName a String userName, **but keep
password still as HtmlInputSecret**, things still work. My thought is
that my app should gag with password being of type HtmlInputSecret too and
ought to demand that it be of type String too..? What is the explanation
for this seeming discripency? And more importantly, what should I do to
fix the code so that i can declare userName as HtmlInputText?
Thanks in advance for your help,
Geeta
