Re: Why is java.lang.Long an unrecognized object when converting to soy data?

[Matt Schemmel]

I long ago gave up on intrinsic support for data type conversion and rely on a helper class to convert pojos to soydata.

On Wednesday, January 16, 2013 6:32:57 AM UTC-8, Michael Patel wrote:

Are there any plans to support a wider range of common types ? 

Mike. 

[Matt Schemmel]

Colleague stumbled across this recently; should point out for recent readers that the 2.4 release of the templates lib in April does include support for custom data-type converters:

https://github.com/google/closure-templates

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