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Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2006 05:58:22 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Stefan Meyer (JIRA)" <dev@myfaces.apache.org>
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Subject: [jira] Created: (MYFACES-1399) Select-Many-Component does not allow
 to register converter for collection but only collection elements
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Select-Many-Component does not allow to register converter for collection but only collection elements
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                 Key: MYFACES-1399
                 URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MYFACES-1399
             Project: MyFaces Core
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: General
            Reporter: Stefan Meyer


You can register a converter for the elements of a selected collection of values but the collection type itself cannot be controlled by a converter. It appears to me that the implementation makes assumption about the developers intended collection type (one comments starts like "this is a curious situation..."). Instead the collection type should be configurable. I have the rather exotic application in mind where I want to edit an in-clause of an SQL query ("in (1,2,4)"). This String property apparently is eqivalent to a list of values of some type. If I want to be able to make this String property of a managed bean editable by a jsf page I need a converter that generates a collection of objects from the String. 

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