Custom Converters to support Collections

[tcarlson25]

If I have a List<Person> as a type, it would be great for the reading/writing converters to work with that type as well, or any Collection for that matter. The original discussion/comment about this issue can be found at issue #1006.

[mp911de]

Spring Data consistently retains property multiplicity meaning that collections, maps, and singular properties are converted element-wise by considering their actual type. For example, a collection of S (source) results in a collection of T (target). Part of the rationale is that when you read a particular value of a collection, you only have access to its class type but no knowledge of the component type. Arrays are different in that regard as their component type is always available.

For the time being, please wrap your List within a value type and register a converter for the to-be-created value type. Spring Data backs off during mapping and uses your converter instead.