CopletModule always returning String instead of real Object

[Gunnar Brand <g....@interface-projects.de>]

Hi.

I was using the coplet input module to get some value stored in an 
attribute of a coplet.
But not inside the sitemap (because there you can only work with strings) 
but in normal java code.
Unfortunately (for me) I had to notice that the coplet module always calls 
".toString()" on the value it returns via getAttribute.
I think this is a bug or design mistake because it prevents any non String 
from being looked up this way.
And the sitemap does the string conversion anyway.
IMHO input modules can and should return objects and not convert them to 
strings.

If I am right, can somebody fix this? I checked the SVN archive I could 
find on the website and it seems all versions of
CopletModule.java have this return value.toString();

gunnar



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Re: CopletModule always returning String instead of real Object

[Carsten Ziegeler <cz...@apache.org>]

Yes, I think this is a bug - I just fixed it.

Thanks
Carsten

Gunnar Brand wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I was using the coplet input module to get some value stored in an 
> attribute of a coplet.
> But not inside the sitemap (because there you can only work with strings) 
> but in normal java code.
> Unfortunately (for me) I had to notice that the coplet module always calls 
> ".toString()" on the value it returns via getAttribute.
> I think this is a bug or design mistake because it prevents any non String 
> from being looked up this way.
> And the sitemap does the string conversion anyway.
> IMHO input modules can and should return objects and not convert them to 
> strings.
> 
> If I am right, can somebody fix this? I checked the SVN archive I could 
> find on the website and it seems all versions of
> CopletModule.java have this return value.toString();
> 
> gunnar
> 
> 
> 


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