Fix the behaviour of string accessors when setter is called with unicode and

add some tests for string accessors conversion



git-svn-id: https://svn.erp5.org/repos/public/erp5/trunk@23032 20353a03-c40f-0410-a6d1-a30d3c3de9de

product/ERP5Type/Accessor/TypeDefinition.py

@@ -92,9 +92,10 @@ def asString(value):
     if value is None:
       result = ''
     else:
-      result = str(value)
-      if isinstance(result, unicode):
-        result = result.encode('utf-8')
+      if isinstance(value, unicode):
+        result = value.encode('utf-8')
+      else:
+        result = str(value)
   except TypeError:
     result = type_definition['string']['default']
   return result

product/ERP5Type/tests/testERP5Type.py

 ##############################################################################
-#
+# -*- coding: utf8 -*-
 # Copyright (c) 2005 Nexedi SARL and Contributors. All Rights Reserved.
 #                    Yoshinori Okuji <yo@nexedi.com>
 #
@@ -944,6 +944,21 @@ class TestPropertySheet:
       self.assertTrue(person.hasProperty('dummy_ps_prop'))
       self.assertEquals('a value', person.getDummyPsProp())
 
+      # string accessors converts the data type, if provided an unicode, it
+      # will store an utf-8 encoded string
+      person.setDummyPsProp(u'type convérsion')
+      self.assertEquals('type convérsion', person.getDummyPsProp())
+      # if provided anything else, it will store it's string representation
+      person.setDummyPsProp(1)
+      self.assertEquals('1', person.getDummyPsProp())
+
+      class Dummy:
+        def __str__(self):
+          return 'string representation'
+      person.setDummyPsProp(Dummy())
+      self.assertEquals('string representation', person.getDummyPsProp())
+
+
     def test_17_WorkflowStateAccessor(self):
       """Tests for workflow state. assumes that validation state is chained to
       the Person portal type and that this workflow has 'validation_state' as