[BeanUtils] default value for BigDecimalConverter

[Tomáš Procházka <t....@centrum.cz>]

Hi.

I have question related ConvertUtilsBeans class.

Why all Converters has defined default value, only BigDecimalConverter and BigIntegerConverter not?  When I need populate any bean with BigDecimal it's fail on this if value is "". For example forms in Strus framework. When I have Integer field and user send empty string BeanBindings convert it to 0, but when I jave BigDecimal field get only:

org.apache.commons.beanutils.ConversionException


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Re: [BeanUtils] default value for BigDecimalConverter

[Niall Pemberton <ni...@gmail.com>]

On 9/2/07, Tomáš Procházka <t....@centrum.cz> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I have question related ConvertUtilsBeans class.
>
> Why all Converters has defined default value, only BigDecimalConverter and BigIntegerConverter not?  When I need populate any bean with BigDecimal it's fail on this if value is "". For example forms in Strus framework. When I have Integer field and user send empty string BeanBindings convert it to 0, but when I jave BigDecimal field get only:
>
> org.apache.commons.beanutils.ConversionException


I believe it was a mistake when BigDecimal / BigInteger converters
were added that they didn't provide a default value and wasn't
subsequently changed for compatibility reasons. You can simply
register instances of those converters with default values yourself to
overcome this:

Converter converter = new BigDecimalConverter(new BigDecimal("0.0"));
ConvertUtils.register(converter, BigDecimal.class);

Niall


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> Tomas Prochazka

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