13 Mar
2007
13 Mar
'07
5:45 p.m.
Brief background: I have a servlet filter that handles authentication.
It wants to auto-register previously unseen users, and update
already-registered users, from information in cookies. The information
is mostly in the form of strings, but the object's fields might not be.
The question: Is there a simple, type-independent method to set an
XWiki Object field's value from a string? The question is not "how can
this be done", since I can easily work that out, but rather "is there a
method currently available"?
brain[sic]