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ComboBoxTableCell: default converter causes NPE in TextFormatter

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      Running the example below fails with the stacktrace (excerpt)

      Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
      at javafx.scene.control.TextInputControl.updateText(TextInputControl.java:1218)
      at javafx.scene.control.TextInputControl.access$300(TextInputControl.java:79)
      at javafx.scene.control.TextInputControl$5.invalidated(TextInputControl.java:320)
      at javafx.beans.property.ObjectPropertyBase.markInvalid(ObjectPropertyBase.java:112)
      at javafx.beans.property.ObjectPropertyBase.set(ObjectPropertyBase.java:147)
      at javafx.scene.control.TextInputControl.setTextFormatter(TextInputControl.java:334)

      The technical reason seems to be the defaultConverter installed by CellUtils - its toString returns a null if the input param is null. That differs from all (?) other StringConverters in core which return an empty string.

      Not sure who's the culprit: on the one hand, null behaviour/return value in StringConverter is not specified, on the other hand TextProperty usually takes care of passing a null as empty string to Content - but replace doesn't.

      The example:
      public class ComboBoxTableCellConverterAndTextFormatter extends Application {

          private Parent getContent() {
              TextField field = new TextField("some dummy");
              TextFormatter formatter = new TextFormatter(new ComboBoxTableCell().getConverter());
              // the default in TextFormatter is okay
              //TextFormatter formatter = new TextFormatter(TextFormatter.IDENTITY_STRING_CONVERTER);
              field.setTextFormatter(formatter);
              return field;
          }
          @Override
          public void start(Stage primaryStage) throws Exception {
              primaryStage.setScene(new Scene(getContent()));
              primaryStage.show();
          }

          public static void main(String[] args) {
              launch(args);
          }
          
      }

            leifs Leif Samuelsson (Inactive)
            fastegal Jeanette Winzenburg
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