On 4 September 2010 20:25, Greg Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > > If I have a bean with a property named nullableProperty, I can set it to > null like this > > > > <MyBean> > > <nullableProperty /> > > </MyBean> > > You can? I have never tried that. :-) >
I discovered it using my normal thought process with regards to Pivot - I bet those smart people have already thought of this, so what would be elegant syntax! > > Is there a way to set it like this? > > > > <MyBean nullableProperty="someSpecialNullToken" /> > > Not at the moment. I can think of at least one class that converts an empty > string to null in a string setter, but we don't have dedicated "null" > support in BXML. > > Seems like a reasonable thing to add, though - the "empty string to null" > conversion isn't especially intuitive. Whatever token we adopt, it should > probably start with "$" so we know it is a reference. Maybe "$bxml:null"? > > Sounds good to me. Chris
