[BEANUTILS-348] When throwing ConversionException, provide more information: ...beanutils.ConversionException: No value specified for 'Date'

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.8.0-BETA
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.0
• Component/s: Bean / Property Utils
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Ralf Hauser
• Created: 07/May/09 06:51
• Updated: 05/Dec/13 21:05

Description

after migrating from 1.7 to v1.8, I get the following backward incompatibility:
org.apache.commons.beanutils.ConversionException: No value specified for 'Date'
at org.apache.commons.beanutils.converters.AbstractConverter.handleMissing(AbstractConverter.java:310)
at org.apache.commons.beanutils.converters.AbstractConverter.convert(AbstractConverter.java:136)
at org.apache.commons.beanutils.converters.ConverterFacade.convert(ConverterFacade.java:60)
at org.apache.commons.beanutils.BeanUtilsBean.convert(BeanUtilsBean.java:1074)
at org.apache.commons.beanutils.BeanUtilsBean.copyProperty(BeanUtilsBean.java:437)
at org.apache.commons.beanutils.BeanUtilsBean.copyProperties(BeanUtilsBean.java:286)
at org.apache.commons.beanutils.BeanUtils.copyProperties(BeanUtils.java:137)

Suggestion:
1) say which getter caused the problem (there may be more than one Date field in the object)
2) in the getMessage, even suggest to use PropertyUtils.copyProperties() if null should be acceptable to

Issue Links

• duplicates: BEANUTILS-41 Provide better error message for "No value specified"