Allow conversion from File, URL, Number etc. to String
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Key: XBEAN-112
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XBEAN-112
Project: XBean
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: reflect
Affects Versions: 3.4.2
Reporter: Benjamin Bentmann
Values of type {{File}}, {{URL}}, {{Integer}} etc. can naturally be converted
to strings. However, the {{ObjectRecipe}} currently blows up if one passes such
objects into a string-typed property.
Some background on the motivation: The property values are not be provided via
an XML configuration, i.e. are not natively represented as strings, but are
instead retrieved from some expression evaluator that (reflectively) queries a
property value from some other bean. If those expressions deliver a
non-string-typed value, they can't be injected into a string-typed field. This
is pity given that a mere invocation of {{toString()}} does the trick and for
instance allows to pass a filesystem path into a String field regardless
whether the path happens to be represented by a {{String}} or a {{File}} object.
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