This has come up quite a bit here on the user list. See the first example on this page: http://www.jeremythomerson.com/blog/2008/11/06/wicket-the-power-of-nested-models/
-- Jeremy Thomerson http://www.wickettraining.com On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 1:38 PM, nate roe <phl...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm using Wicket v1.3.4. > > I would like to create a kind of TextField that converts a null model value > to a custom string rather than an empty string. Unfortunately, the > converter is not run when the model object is null, and it looks like > Component.getModelObjectAsString(...) is hard-coded to return "" when the > model is null. > > Is there some way I can overcome this without modifying the Wicket source? > > Thanks, > Nate Roe >