[TAPESTRY-1931] Add an annotation to allow explicit setting of property types

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 5.0.6
• Fix Version/s: 5.0.7
• Component/s: tapestry-core
• Assignee: Howard Lewis Ship
• Reporter: Howard Lewis Ship
• Created: 24/Nov/07 18:28
• Updated: 22/Dec/07 04:56
• Resolved: 22/Dec/07 04:56

Description

Currently, there's a fairly simple mapping from Java property type to Tapestry property type ... the latter being a string used to select appropriate components to display the value of a property or edit the value of a property.

However, type is not always enough. For example, String and Number both map to "text", but a String could also be a long text field (use a <textarea>) or perhaps a rich text field (we will eventually add a rich text editor to Tapestry). Likewise, Date maps to "date" but that doesn't allow for time input, just the date portion.

How about:

public class MyBean {
private String _password;
private String _note;

public String getPassword()

{ return _password; }

@PropertyType("password")
public void setPassword(String password)

{ _password = password; }

public String getNote()

{ return _note; }

@PropertyType("longtext")
public void setNote(String note)

{ _note = note); }