h:outputText converters and null objects

[MC PHERSON Sandy <sa...@eurocontrol.int>]

Hi
I have switched to using the Sun-RI because of a bug in the Weblogic
Portal 10 JSF portlet bridge.

However now it would appear that I get a side effect when feeding a null
value to an output text, we have a lot of data structures where null is
used to indicate optional fields. E.g a regulation with no end date is
identified by a null date.

<h:outputText value="#{e.endDate}" converter="DateTimeConverter"/>

When I explicitly specify the time converter like this with myfaces the
converter gets activated, but with the RI this doesn't work. Any ideas
why there is a difference in behaviour and which behaviour is correct?

Both MyFaces and Sun-RI are the 1.1.1 versions bundled with
WeblogicPortal 10.

The application which I am porting to portlets was written using
myfaces, so if I have to use the RI because of the weblogic bug, this
could mean a lot of work to fix this... 
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RE: h:outputText converters and null objects

[MC PHERSON Sandy <sa...@eurocontrol.int>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Marinschek [mailto:martin.marinschek@gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday 4 January 2008 15:52
> To: MyFaces Discussion
> Subject: Re: h:outputText converters and null objects
> 
> The converter does not get activated when the value is null?

Exactly

> 
> If this doesn't work in the RI, it is clearly a bug in the RI...
> 

That's what I thought!

Thanks
Sandy

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Re: h:outputText converters and null objects

[Martin Marinschek <ma...@gmail.com>]

The converter does not get activated when the value is null?

If this doesn't work in the RI, it is clearly a bug in the RI...

regards,

Martin

On 1/4/08, MC PHERSON Sandy <sa...@eurocontrol.int> wrote:
> Hi
> I have switched to using the Sun-RI because of a bug in the Weblogic
> Portal 10 JSF portlet bridge.
>
> However now it would appear that I get a side effect when feeding a null
> value to an output text, we have a lot of data structures where null is
> used to indicate optional fields. E.g a regulation with no end date is
> identified by a null date.
>
> <h:outputText value="#{e.endDate}" converter="DateTimeConverter"/>
>
> When I explicitly specify the time converter like this with myfaces the
> converter gets activated, but with the RI this doesn't work. Any ideas
> why there is a difference in behaviour and which behaviour is correct?
>
> Both MyFaces and Sun-RI are the 1.1.1 versions bundled with
> WeblogicPortal 10.
>
> The application which I am porting to portlets was written using
> myfaces, so if I have to use the RI because of the weblogic bug, this
> could mean a lot of work to fix this...
> ____
>
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