Jasper Rosenberg created WW-4203: ------------------------------------ Summary: Allow disabling xwork creating null objects on a property level Key: WW-4203 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WW-4203 Project: Struts 2 Issue Type: Improvement Components: Core Interceptors Affects Versions: 2.3.15.2, 2.3.15.1 Reporter: Jasper Rosenberg Priority: Minor
Currently, the ParametersInterceptor sets: ReflectionContextState.setCreatingNullObjects(contextMap, true) This is great for parameters like "person.name=Phil" since it will create the Person object for you and then set the name. However, sometimes you have a converter for a property that will set it as a whole, and you want to make sure that an empty object is never created. For example, "person=6", where the Person is set by looking it up by id. Currently, if someone messed with the url and made it "person[x]=6", XWork would end up creating an empty Person object. (Something along these lines happened to us and I was looking for a clean way to tell XWork to not allow it) Perhaps the TypeConversion annotation could be extended to support this as an additional flag. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira