Regardless what have been said before. Treatment of strings and other form's variable has to be as it is written HTTP and HTML protocol and ww1, ww2, struts, maven or whatever have to be implemented in the way as it is in specification. They have to be transparent. Are you gaing to explain to every newcomer to ww that here it's working a little bit different? After that evryone will be confused. HTML froms works with strings and no way to make it different. If I haven't placed a field nobody can put it as it was left emty, it must be left as null. After all when you have an string you can convert to any required type, and if you have an conversion error it has to be error, and nothing else. Here is no other way. Are you going to change HTML and HTTP spec. Nobody will do that.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Dick Zetterberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 11:44 AM Subject: Re: [OS-webwork] Empty string property now "" instead of null? In WW1.3 and 1.4 a string parameter that is empty will set the string property to the empty string. Not null. If your program choose to interpret this as null that is up to you. How can you otherwise see the difference between a parameter that is not sent in at all and one that is sent in but is empty? Cheers, Dick Zetterberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lars Fischer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 12:38 PM Subject: Re: [OS-webwork] Empty string property now "" instead of null? > IMO it is essential that is is NULL. This has been a problem with WW 1.2. > and has > been fixed in 1.3. It's perfectly legal for a String to be null. > > If WW2 handles this as an empty String, it's a bug. > > > Hi, > > > > When a form field (single textfield) is not filled, the request param is > > an > > empty string, which translates to an empty string array > > (ParametersInterceptor), but my property setter is called with an empty > > string. Should't that be null? > > > > Cheers, > > Mathias ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Opensymphony-webwork mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensymphony-webwork ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Opensymphony-webwork mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensymphony-webwork
