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Ramesh S commented on BEANUTILS-473:
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This is severely affecting our ability to upgrade to 1.9.2, which is required
as part of upgrading another 3rd party library. But we are stuck. Any
solution/workaround available in the meantime? Please help.
> Backward compatibility - copying null values to primitive types
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: BEANUTILS-473
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEANUTILS-473
> Project: Commons BeanUtils
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Bean / Property Utils
> Affects Versions: 1.9.2
> Reporter: Sven Raddatz
> Labels: IllegalArgumentException, backwards-compatibility,
> null-values
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> Copying a NULL value to a primitve property in destination bean (e.g.
> boolean) was silently ignored in BU 1.7.0. In 1.9.2 this is throwing an
> IllegalArgumentException.
> Since converters are not executed when value is null there is no way to
> prevent this behaviour, making it hard to migrate from 1.7.0 to 1.9.2. The
> only way to accomplish this task is to switch from primitive to non-primitive
> types in all destination beans, which would result in huge testing effort.
> It would be nice to either have the possibility to use convertes to handle
> null values with a valid default (e.g. null = false in case of boolean) or to
> globally have a switch for a "silent / lenient mode" where any exceptions
> during copying are silently ignored.
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