Re: [Springframework-developer] Number Types in Configuration

[Colin S. <col...@ex...>]

Rob Harrop wrote:

> Just seen this post on the forum: 
> http://forum.springframework.org/viewtopic.php?t=4350 and I think it 
> would be a really good idea if you could use Java language semantics 
> for numbers inside the configuration file. So, for example, you can 
> specify 3000L and have it be a Long rather than an Integer. This is 
> much simpler than the current solution.

Rob,

How is this really supposed to work in terms of implementation though? 
Keep in mind right now the values are Strings, and then a PropertyEditor 
takes care of converting to the target type (when directly setting a 
property). How is Spring supposed to know that this is going to be a 
target Long, as opposed to just a string, given that what is being set 
is of type Object?

On the other hand, the value element does have a 'type' attribute, so 
this can be specified for this case:
   <value type="java.lang.Long">30000</value>

Colin