[TAP5-1356] When contributing to a service configuration, values should be coerced to the correct type rather than rejected if not the correct type

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 5.2.5
• Fix Version/s: 5.3
• Component/s: tapestry-ioc
• Assignee: Howard Lewis Ship
• Reporter: Howard Lewis Ship
• Created: 24/Nov/10 22:20
• Updated: 04/Jul/11 20:21
• Resolved: 20/Mar/11 21:17

Description

This will make it much easier to migrate the behavior of services as long as contributions of the old type can be coerced to contributions of the new type.

It may also make it easier to contribute symbol constants, as it will be possible to pass true, not "true", or literal numbers.