[XW-1017] Delegate XWorkConverter conversion to Jakarta Commons ConvertUtils if a type is registered

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 1.0-beta1
• Fix Version/s: 1.0-beta1
• Component/s: Interceptors
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Cameron Braid
• Created: 29/May/03 15:02
• Updated: 18/Jun/12 07:29
• Resolved: 17/Jun/03 18:23

Description

I have been playing with adding in support for Commons Bean utils ConvertUtils class to provide the fallback converter if no action:property ognl converter class is registered. I have achieved it by adding this code at the start of doConvert (as well as using my fix to XW-49)

Object doConvert(Map context, Object value, Class toType)
{
/**

• delegate to ConvertUtils if the type is registered
  */
  if (ConvertUtils.lookup(toType) != null)
  Unknown macro: { if (value instanceof String) { return ConvertUtils.convert((String)value, toType); } else if (toType.equals(String.class)) { return ConvertUtils.convert(value); } }

  ...
  }