> 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!

Ha! Well, it wasn't intentional, but it is probably the right 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.

Cool. Want to add a JIRA ticket for this?

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