[MYFACES-1399] Select-Many-Component does not allow to register converter for collection but only collection elements

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Component/s: General
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Stefan Meyer
• Created: 02/Sep/06 12:56
• Updated: 31/Aug/15 07:30
• Resolved: 31/Aug/15 07:30

Description

You can register a converter for the elements of a selected collection of values but the collection type itself cannot be controlled by a converter. It appears to me that the implementation makes assumption about the developers intended collection type (one comments starts like "this is a curious situation..."). Instead the collection type should be configurable. I have the rather exotic application in mind where I want to edit an in-clause of an SQL query ("in (1,2,4)"). This String property apparently is eqivalent to a list of values of some type. If I want to be able to make this String property of a managed bean editable by a jsf page I need a converter that generates a collection of objects from the String.