[TRINIDAD-381] JSF 1.2: EL binding to null Strings show up as empty strings

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.0-incubating-core-SNAPSHOT
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.0-incubating-core-SNAPSHOT
• Assignee: Adam Winer
• Reporter: Adam Winer
• Created: 09/Feb/07 02:22
• Updated: 27/Jan/10 08:45
• Resolved: 09/Feb/07 02:47

Description

Take:

<tr:outputText value="foo" styleClass="#

{notthere}

" shortDesc="#

{nowway}

"/>

Prior to 1.2, this generated no "class" or "title" attribute, because these EL
bindings return null.

Now, in 1.2, these being strings, we tell the JSP system that these are deferred-values
of type java.lang.String. And, the silly coercion rules then convert every null to
"".

So, we get:

<span title="" class="">foo</span>