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Default behavior

Basic Property

By default BasicProperty and BasicPropertyHandler are used.

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• Retrieve the Item.property if this property already exist on the Item.
  property is search based on the Field name defined as name property on the field definition. 
• Create the Item.property if this property do not yet exist on the Item.
   property is created based on the following field definition:
  
  • type: property will get the desired type
  • defaultValue: if define, the string representation of the default field value is converted to a new typed value.

Composite Property

Composite Property (CompositeProperty) are used by the following fields:

• CompositeField
• SwitchableField

CompositeField

This field is by default bound with  SimplePropertyCompositeHandler . This handler will store each single field part of the CompositeField as single suffixed property.
Assume that your CompositeField is called 'composite' and contains two fields: a text field called 'simpleText' and a date field called 'simpleDate'. The  values will be stored as following:

SwitchableField

This field is by default bound with  SwitchableSimplePropertyCompositeHandler . This handler will store each single field part of the SwitchableField as single suffixed property.
Assume that your SwitchableField is called 'switchable' and contains two fields: a text field called 'simpleText' and a date field called 'simpleDate'. The  values will be stored as following:

List Property

List Property (ListProperty) are used by the following field:

• MultiField

MultiField

This field is by default bound with  MultiValuesPropertyMultiHandler . This handler will store each single field part of the MultiField as a multiValue property (Basically a JCR multiValue property represented a a Typed List property).

i18n

All default implementation support the i18n definition.
If for example you have two language defined ('en', 'de') with 'en' set as default language:

If you want to implement your own implementation of PropertyHandler that support i18n, your implementation will need to:

• return true for PropertyHandler.hasI18NSupport() 
• implement a compatible Magnolia i18n logic.

Implemented

Implemented Property

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