[Mono-dev] Object data source update fails on nullable field.

[Marek Habersack]

On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 10:29 +0000, Ivan N. Zlatev wrote:
> 2008/12/16 Vladimir Krasnov <vladimirk at mainsoft.com>
>         Hi Marek,
>         
>         I've found some problems in updating row in GridView control
>         that bound
>         to ObjectDataSource.
>         
>         1. ObjectDataSource fails to convert values to Nullable<>
>         properties
>         while creating data object.
>         2. BoundField should return null when no value entered by the
>         user, it
>         returns empty string and ObjectDataSource fails to convert it.
>         
>         Please review attached patch that fixes both these problems,
>         also find
>         attached test cases.
>         
>         Vladimir
> 
> 
> I don't know if the web databinding layer uses TypeConverters (the
> WinForms one does), but just in case I should note that I have
> implemented the NullableConverter two weeks ago in SVN HEAD.
It does, when the type being converted is adorned with the TypeConverter
attribute

best,

marek