ColorPicker java.awt.Color support dropped?

[KennardConsulting]

Hi guys,

Thanks for the great work you do on PrimeFaces!

I'm in the process of updating http://metawidget.org and have hit a problem. The PrimeFaces Color picker appears to have a colourful history? At first it supported java.awt.Color, then that got moved to being Converter-based in order to accomodate Google App Engine. At some point the ColorPickerRenderer appeared to be (correctly, I think) using...

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line 57: String value = getValueAsString(facesContext,colorPicker);

http://grepcode.com/file/repository.pri ... derer.java

...but in the latest release (3.2) it appears to be back to...

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line 55: String value = (String) colorPicker.getValue();

...which I think breaks Converter support? And the showcase only demonstrates using Strings. Has java.awt.Color support been dropped? Is it possible to use a Converter to reproduce it? I understand the Google App Engine limitation, but I would think java.awt.Color would be a common use case?

Regards,

Richard

[T.dot]

ColorPicker was reimplemented for 3.0. Blog post was here:
http://blog.primefaces.org/?p=1201

As you already know the lines that don't work for you I would suggest to override the component/renderer and add a converter. You can also create an issue, but I don't think it will get very high priority
Please share your code if you implement it by yourself.

[cagatay.civici]

Why don't you write a converter?

[KennardConsulting]

Hi Optimus!

Thanks for replying.

I did try writing a Converter, but since the line of code I highlighted (ColorPickerRenderer:55) uses a cast rather than calling getValueAsString, my Converter gets ignored.

Earlier versions of ColorPickerRenderer *did* use getValueAsString (also as I highlighted), so I believe this may be a bug in 3.2?

Regards,

Richard.