Re: Proposed changes to DefaultFormMap & FormType

Hi,

> However, what about my comment about empty strings from the
> ServletRequest? Is there any reason to even attempt parsing if the
> string is empty? Shouldn't that get mapped directly to null for the real
> value? I believe if the FormType is anything but String and you pass in
> an empty string the resulting value will be null. However if the type is
> String and you pass an empty String you get an empty String. That seems
> to create a little discrepency in the way the values are returned. What
> do you think?

This is already been handled correct (and in your sense :)) by the validators. 
Iman did great work on this. Every validator has to ignore "" or null. If you 
want a mandatory field, add a NotNullValidator.

Diez