[XW-297] Type Converters Can't Be Set On Nested Properties

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.0.5
• Fix Version/s: 1.2
• Environment: Windows XP, JDK 1.4.2_03
• Assignee: Patrick Lightbody
• Reporter: Doug Seifert
• Created: 10/Feb/04 20:04
• Updated: 24/Jul/06 14:12
• Resolved: 24/Jul/06 14:12

Description

If I have an action with a bean as a field, I can't set validators for fields of the bean. For example, If I have an action FooAction with a field called bar, which in turn has a field called baz, I can't put the following in FooAction-conversion.properties:

bar.baz=my.special.Converter

If I try the above, my TypeConverter is never called. If FooAction has a field called bim, putting the following in FooAction-conversion.properties is ok:
bim=my.special.Converter

This is in stark contrast to the validation framework which allows quite nicely the registration of field validators on the field baz.bar.