Conversion error with non-primitive types

Question

I'm wondering if anyone else is seeing this problem or has a potential solution.
The problem, in a nutshell:
I have beans that use non-primitive types (Float instead of float) in the getters and setters. However I keep getting conversion error problems. If I switch to primitive types, I don't get conversion errors. The built-in FloatConverter says (in the documentation at least) that it supports both primitives and boxed types. This was all working in EA4, though. I am discovering this problem as I migrate from EA4 to 1.0.
The code is pretty straightforward:
public class Bean implements Serializable {
public float getProp() {...}
public void setProp(float) {...}
public Float getPropOld() {...}
public void setPropOld(Float) {...}
<!-- works -->
<h:inputText id="floatinput" value="#{BeanInstance.prop}"/>
<!-- doesn't work -->
<h:inputText id="floatinputold" value="#{BeanInstance.propOld}"/>
Any ideas? I have tried explicitly calling the FloatConverter but that gave the same problems.

Answer 1

Okay, I figured out my problem.
The JSF spec implies that f:convertNumber may be used inside an h:inputText tag. The early versions of Core JSF go further and show f:convertNumber being used inside an h:inputText tag in one of the examples. (Chapter 7, conversions).
However, this has been the source of my problem. When using f:convertNumber, the converter would automatically determine the data type without regard to the data type in the backing bean. Hence, it would try to pass Longs or Doubles to the bean instead of Floats.
I believe this may be an issue in the 1.0 FR release.