For integer, decimal, and date fields I need to unmarshall from XML when the
value is empty string (""). For example:<SomeTag someAttr="" /> The problem is, if I define the field as an "integer", "big-decimal" or "date" type in my castor mapping xml, it will choke on the empty string value when trying to convert it during the unmarshall. So I need a way to treat (or convert) empty string as null. For the integer/decimal field types, I was able to write my own FieldHandler class to do this, because converting from String to Integer/BigDecimal is not complicated. However, for date fields I don't want to duplicate all the date-parsing code that Castor has in DateFieldHandler. I tried extending DateFieldHandler, but so far this hasn't worked for me (need a concrete FieldHandler implementation to pass to parent constructor). Any suggestions? Steve
