Consider options for BeanUtils compatibility in light of Conversion improvements
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Key: BEANUTILS-285
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEANUTILS-285
Project: Commons BeanUtils
Issue Type: New Feature
Components: ConvertUtils & Converters
Affects Versions: 1.8.0
Reporter: Niall Pemberton
Assignee: Niall Pemberton
The Conversion improvements associated with BEANUTILS-258 potentially create
compatibility issues - this was highlighted by Betwixt's tests failing recently
in the gump run - see http://tinyurl.com/2mxbv8 for more details.
Quite a bit of effort has been put into making the new conversion facilities as
painless as possible for existing users. However it is not fully backwards
compatible in terms of behaviour (stiil binary compatible). Need to give this
some consideration before a BeanUtils release - at the moment there are two
options on the table (more welcome!):
1) The compatibility as it stands is good enough (covers most cases) - so do
nothing
2) Provide a "compatibility option" - so that users can choose either the new
behaviour or behaviour compatible with BeanUtils 1.7.0. This probably involves
quite a bit of work - adding back the old behaviour alongside the new
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