Re: [Springframework-developer] Feature request

[Thomas R. <tho...@tr...>]

Rob,

If you don't want this to get lost - consider creating a JIRA issue:

http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/spring/secure/Dashboard.jspa

Cheers,
Thomas


Rob Butler wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'd like a minor enhancement to org.springframework.beans.propertyeditors.StringArrayPropertyEditor.
>
> Please add support for null properties similar to StringTrimmerEditor(true) so empty strings will result in null instead of an empty array.
>
> This will make it possible to have empty property values in a property
> file pass null to setters instead of an empty array.  This is necessary
> when using some third code because an empty array is
> handled differently from a null array.  For example, Mina's
> SSLContextFactoryBean allows you to set a String[] of enabled cipher
> suites.  A null String[] results in using the default cipher suites,
> where an empty String[] results in no cipher suites being enabled.
>
>
> While making this modification it might be nice to add support for charsToDelete, just like StringTrimmerEditor has.  This would allow line-breaks between long sequences of values.
>
> If three constructors were used in StringArrayPropertyEditor backwards compatibility would be maintained.
>
> public StringArrayPropertyEditor(){..}  // maintains backwards compatibility
>
> public StringArrayPropertyEditor(boolean emptyAsNull){..}
> public StringArrayPropertyEditor(String charsToDelete, boolean emptyAsNull){..}
>
> Thanks
> Rob
>
>
>
>
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