[FLOW3-general] Issues with Validation and Property Mapping

[Sebastian Kurfürst]

Hey,

the type converter should handle the "empty" case specially by returning
NULL, such that the Validator works correctly (think of Not Empty f.e.)


> So if the source, as string, is *empty*, that converter doesn't throw
> the Error. That means, and empty string passes that check, is casted
> to (float), which results in becoming 0.
as said, the converter needs to return NULL.

See [1] for all possible return values of a type converter.

> I would ask to suggest if the strlen() check shouldn't just been
> thrown out, because if it is acutally an empty string, it's indeed
> also not a float and should result in that error.
Empty values have to be handled with special care; else you cannot enter
empty numbers at all ;-)

Would you take care of the patch?


Greets, Sebastian


[1]
http://flow3.typo3.org/documentation/guide/partiii/propertymapping.html#writing-own-typeconverters