Allow String converters

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The JSF-RI disallows String converters because of performance reasons, according
to Adam Winer.

The specification and javadoc APIs are silent on this limitation. The
"documentation" of the behavior is a comment in a private method.

// if converterType is null, String, or Object, assume no
conversion is needed

My use case is that I would like to create a java.lang.String
converter that automatically converts all empty strings to null.

I am also appending another user's request for String converter functionality,
since he's also not heard back on this issue, and it's essentially the same request.

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To: jsr-252-comments@jcp.org
Cc: mkienenb@gmail.com
Subject: String Converter
Message-ID: OF2A560BB1.750CF5CB-ON89257098.005FD316-89257098.0063D709@blm.gov
From: Dennis_Byrne@ak.blm.gov
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 10:10:31 -0800

I would like to register a Converter for Strings, allowing me to trim
everything in the RR [RenderResponse] phase. This would save me a lot of time,
as there are several hundred Strings in my domain model and the database yields
padding for text/char fields. Trimming Strings is not a performance hit
for this usecase, since an intern will have to write code to manually trim
everything otherwise AFAIK, the 1.1 spec permits this but I am alone
w/ this interpretation. What are the chances of this being explicitly
defined in the 1.2 spec?

Environment

Operating System: All
Platform: All

Affected Versions

[2.0]

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@glassfishrobot Commented
Reported by mkienenb

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@glassfishrobot Commented
@edburns said:
This is worth trying for 1.2.

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@glassfishrobot Commented
@edburns said:
Created an attachment (id=97)
complete files for this change-bundle.

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@glassfishrobot Commented
File: jsf-spec-131.tar.gz
Attached By: @edburns

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@glassfishrobot Commented
@edburns said:
Created an attachment (id=98)
Fix for this bug, first iteration.

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@glassfishrobot Commented
File: message.txt
Attached By: @edburns

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@glassfishrobot Commented
@rlubke said:
r=rlubke

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@glassfishrobot Commented
@edburns said:
Fix checked in, you can now use String Converters.

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@glassfishrobot Commented
@edburns said:
Prepare to delete api subcomponent

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@glassfishrobot Commented
@edburns said:
Move all to 1.2

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@glassfishrobot Commented
Marked as fixed on Thursday, March 4th 2010, 6:09:28 am

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@glassfishrobot Commented
@manfredriem said:
Closing resolved issue out

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@glassfishrobot Commented
This issue was imported from java.net JIRA JAVASERVERFACES_SPEC_PUBLIC-131

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• Issue Imported From: Allow String converters javaee/javaserverfaces-spec#131
• Original Issue Raised By:@glassfishrobot
• Original Issue Assigned To: @edburns
• Original Issue Closed By:@glassfishrobot