[WW-3871] TypeConversion annotation support improvement

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 2.3.4.1
• Fix Version/s: 7.0.0
• Component/s: Plugin - Convention
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Pavan Ananth
• Created: 04/Sep/12 12:51
• Updated: 22/Oct/22 06:59

Description

The annotation support for TypeConversion in Struts 2 is too literal an interpretation of the XML support. For instance, I am required to supply this if I have choose the CreateIfNull feature at a property level :

@TypeConversion(key="CreateIfNull_users", rule=ConversionRule.CreateIfNull, value="true")
List<User> users;

Given that the rule is CreateIfNull, the key can be constructed implicitly using property name - why is it asked of an user to type in the full key.

This holds good for the other supported ConversionRules as well