SelectItem and Converters

[Michael]

Hi all,

I apologize if this question is answered elsewhere but I didn't have any luck with the mailing list archive, JIRA, or google.

I have an array of SelectItem objects with the value set to a Java 5 enumeration.  If I register a custom converter using converter-for-class, I'd expect to be able to bind the SelectItem array to a selectOneMenu and the converter would be called automatically.

Instead, my converter is never called.  Further, Application.createConverter is never called either (I set a breakpoint there).  I get the following exception:
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Value is no String and component someClientId does not have a Converter

I looked at the code and it seems that RendererUtils.getConvertedStringValue does not check to see if a class converter exists.  It only uses the converter passed to it (which looking in HtmlRendererUtils, is the converter associated with the UIComponent).

I know there was some mention of this in MYFACES-131 but it was closed as a duplicate with no reference (at least that I could find) to the original bug.

Am I missing something or should this be filed as a bug?

Thanks,
Michael