Hi. Take a look at http://myfaces.markmail.org/message/syt73xw5qkmlrcg2?q=COERCE_TO_ZERO
I would suggest you create a String property to receive the value and make the conversion in its setter (for example), or use Juel ( http://juel.sourceforge.net/ ). The problem in using a different configuration to change the behavior is your app will not be 100% compliant with EL... Good luck, Walter Mourão http://waltermourao.com.br http://arcadian.com.br http://oriens.com.br On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 6:12 AM, <juergen.wien...@hella.com> wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I have the following problem with conversion of an inputfield to a > BigDecimal. The input has to distinguish between zero and empty string. > > The page contains the following code: > > <h:inputText value="#{sessionBean.testvar}"> > <f:convertNumber type="number" /> > </h:inputText> > > sessionBean.testvar ist a simple BigDecimal with default getter and > Setter. > > Submitting the page with a empty field sets testvar to an BigDecimal with > value 0 and rerendering of the page brings up a "0" in the inputfield > instead of leafing it empty. > > Google and our analyse of the problem pointed the following: > > We use this environment: Tomcat 6.0.32, MyFaces 1.2.10 > > I found Tomcat runtime parameter > -Dorg.apache.el.parser.COERCE_TO_ZERO="false" as a workaround. > > https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=43285#c7 > http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/config/systemprops.html > > I don't want to use this workaround on our servers. (Not sure of > side-effects on other apss) > What is the right solution to prevent this behaviour? Did I get sonething > wrong? > Is there a better solution (in MyFaces I would prefer ;-) )? > > Best regards > > Jürgen Wieners > >
