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[jsr372-experts mirror] [jsr372-experts] Re: [NEW] Converter chaining, global converters

From: manfred riem <manfred.riem_at_oracle.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 10:04:27 -0600

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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