As far as I know it is now the standard behavior... Walter Mourão http://waltermourao.com.br http://arcadian.com.br http://oriens.com.br
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 8:30 AM, <juergen.wien...@hella.com> wrote: > Hi. > > Thanks for the quick reply, it helps me fpr the moment. > So i'm thinking of what I will do. > > Little question : A upgrade to JSF 2 wouldn't solve this problem, or? > > Best regards > > Jürgen Wieners > > Abt.: HCC-GP-CP - Tel.: 31007 > > > > Von: Walter Mourão <walter.mou...@gmail.com> > An: MyFaces Discussion <users@myfaces.apache.org> > Kopie: juergen.wien...@hella.com > Datum: 08.04.2011 12:42 > Betreff: Re: Problem with inputText conversion to BigDecimal > > > > 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 > > > > > >
