The runtime already has converters available for primitive. Are you saying
the default converter would be executed before a registered converter?
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On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 11:26 AM, arjan tijms <arjan.tijms_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> For what it's worth, I've had converter chaining on my mind for some
> time. One particular use case that I remember this came up is
> converting numerical IDs to some entity. This would first need to
> convert from String to say Long, and then from Long to say Order.
>
> Apart from true chaining, a simple 1 step solution might be to have
> converters with specific types (possibly via generics), for which the
> runtime has global converters available. E.g.
>
> @FacesConverter("someConverter")
> public class SomeConverter implements TypedConverter<Long> {
>
> @Override
> public Object getAsObject(FacesContext context, UIComponent
> component, Long parameter) {
> // ...
> }
>
> // ...
> }
>
> Kind regards,
> Arjan
>
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 5:04 PM, manfred riem <manfred.riem_at_oracle.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi Kito,
> >
> > A phase listener would not do the trick for you?
> >
> > Note unless I am mistaken what you are describing seems more like a
> corner
> > case to me?
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Manfred
> >
> >
> > On 12/11/14, 9:56 AM, Kito Mann wrote:
> >
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > On my current project, I have a situation where I'd like to process input
> > from _every_ JSF input component on the page. There are a few different
> ways
> > I can do this, but what I really want is to be able to apply a global
> > converter, much like global validators. However, in order to do this, we
> > would have to have some sort of "converter chaining" mechanism so that
> > existing converters won't get clobbered. I could implement this by
> walking
> > through all of the EditableValueHolders in the view and adding a special
> > converter that can wrap an existing converter if necessary. However,
> this is
> > something that would work well at the spec level. Thoughts?
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