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Subject: How to control conversion of primitives->String in
 BeanUtils.describe() ??
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 21:01:24 -0800
Message-ID: <56C855C3509EDE49BADFEE0CD61FAA03022D8239@HQEXCH01.on24.com>
Thread-Topic: How to control conversion of primitives->String in
 BeanUtils.describe() ??
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From: "Timothy Bessie" <Timothy.Bessie@on24.com>
To: <commons-user@jakarta.apache.org>

Does anyone out there know how to control the conversion of primitives
to Strings in calls made to BeanUtils.describe()?

I have registered converters to the String class, as follows:

        ConvertUtils.register(toStringConverter, String.class);
        LocaleConvertUtils.register(toStringConverter, String.class,
Locale.US);
        LocaleConvertUtils.register(toStringConverter, String.class,
Locale.ENGLISH);

but they don't seem to ever get called.  Conversion to other classes
gets called (for example, I've registered a converter to the Date class,
which does get called).

Am I missing something here?  I have read through the documentation,
looked at the source, done a ton of Googling and looking in the
mailing list archives, and I can't find anything to help me with this.
Is there, then, no way to control the conversion of primitives
to Strings, or am I going about it the wrong way?

- Tim Bessie

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