[Springframework-developer] Suggestion: Generic BeanFactoryPostProcessor for registering custom PropertyEditors

[Daniel P. <po...@ci...>]

I'd like to suggest adding a convenience BeanFactoryPostProcessor
implementation to org.springframework.beans.factory.config to register
custom PropertyEditors.  This seems like a very common need and an easy
addition.  Maybe something like:

<bean id="customEditorConfigurer"
      class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.CustomEditorConfigurer">
  <property name="customEditors">
    <map>
      <entry key="java.util.Date">
        <value>com.acme.MyCustomDateEditor</value>i
      </entry>
    </map>
  </property>
</bean>

The CustomEditorConfigurer bean would just iterate over the map entries
and call beanFactory.registerCustomerEditor() for each using the
specified property class and custom editor.

Seems like a simple and useful addition to the core framework.

Any thoughts?
Daniel