[CONFIGURATION-487] DataConfiguration.get() cannot handle a trivial conversion

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.8
• Fix Version/s: 1.9
• Component/s: Type conversion
• Assignee: Oliver Heger
• Reporter: Oliver Heger
• Created: 17/Mar/12 17:03
• Updated: 22/Aug/12 18:07
• Resolved: 17/Mar/12 20:11

Description

A call to DataConfiguration.get() eventually invokes the PropertyConverter.to() method. Here a number of supported data types are checked and corresponding conversions are done.

However, the case that the value does not need to be converted at all - because it already has the expected type - is not taken into account. This is especially a problem for string values: there is not conversion to string, so the get() method fails even if the value is already a string.