Don't validate type on PropertyEditorSupport.setValue()/toString() calls
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                 Key: XBEAN-93
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XBEAN-93
             Project: XBean
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: reflect
    Affects Versions: 3.1, 3.2
            Reporter: Kevan Miller
             Fix For: 3.2


I ran into the following error on G 2.0.1 with Spring versions 
2.0.5-2.0.7-SNAPSHOT. PropertyEditor.setValue() is being called with an object 
whose type does not match the defined type.

15:54:12,596 ERROR [ContextLoader] Context initialization failed 
org.springframework.beans.factory.access.BootstrapException: Unable to 
initialize group definition. Group resource name 
[classpath*:beanRefContext.xml], factory key [ear.context]; nested exception is 
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean 
with name 'ear.context' defined in URL 
[jar:file:/Users/kevan/Desktop/geronimo-tomcat6-jee5-2.0.1/repository/org/spring/example/MultipleContexts/1.0/MultipleContexts-1.0.ear/lib/SampleJava.jar!/beanRefContext.xml]:
 Instantiation of bean failed; nested exception is 
org.apache.xbean.propertyeditor.PropertyEditorException: Value is not an 
instance of String 
Caused by: 
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean 
with name 'ear.context' defined in URL 
[jar:file:/Users/kevan/Desktop/geronimo-tomcat6-jee5-2.0.1/repository/org/spring/example/MultipleContexts/1.0/MultipleContexts-1.0.ear/lib/SampleJava.jar!/beanRefContext.xml]:
 Instantiation of bean failed; nested exception is 
org.apache.xbean.propertyeditor.PropertyEditorException: Value is not an 
instance of String 
Caused by: 
org.apache.xbean.propertyeditor.PropertyEditorException: Value is not an 
instance of String 
at 
org.apache.xbean.propertyeditor.AbstractConverter.setValue(AbstractConverter.java:67)
 
at 
org.springframework.beans.TypeConverterDelegate.doConvertValue(TypeConverterDelegate.java:276)
 
at 
org.springframework.beans.TypeConverterDelegate.convertIfNecessary(TypeConverterDelegate.java:192)
<snip>

Spring has been updated in latest builds to ignore this problem (see 
http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/spring/browse/SPR-3799). There's some 
question about what the proper behavior is in this case... I didn't find any 
spec-level guidance... 
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/ljnelson/archive/2007/08/objects_and_str.html 
(search for 'dilemma') recommends logging the condition and ignoring the type 
mismatch.

I'm going to remove the type checking.

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