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On 13.05.2016 15:09, Kito Mann wrote:
> +1
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> On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 7:06 AM, arjan tijms <arjan.tijms_at_gmail.com 
> <mailto:arjan.tijms_at_gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     In practice, what we often do in Converters and Validators is
>     something like the following:
>
>     @FacesConverter("toLowerCaseConverter")
>     public class ToLowerCaseConverter implements Converter<String> {
>
>     @Override
>     public String getAsObject(FacesContext context, UIComponent
>     component, String value) {
>     if (value == null) {
>     return null;
>     }
>
>     return value.toLowerCase(getLocale());
>     }
>
>     @Override
>     public String getAsString(FacesContext context, UIComponent
>     component, String value) {
>     return value;
>     }
>
>     }
>
>     The null check is pretty repetitive.
>
>     What about:
>
>     @FacesConverter("toLowerCaseConverter", nullSafe= true)
>     public class ToLowerCaseConverter implements Converter<String> {
>
>     @Override
>     public String getAsObject(FacesContext context, UIComponent
>     component, String value) {
>     return value.toLowerCase(getLocale());
>     }
>
>     @Override
>     public String getAsString(FacesContext context, UIComponent
>     component, String value) {
>     return value;
>     }
>
>     }
>
>     The nullSafe=true would let the runtime do the == null return null
>     thing (for both methods, the example only shows one).
>
>     Thoughts?
>
>     Kind regards,
>     Arjan Tijms
>
>
>
>
>