TextItem.getType() is always NULL in SmartGWT 2.4

[daviddb]

In the new SmartGWT 2.4, there seems to be a problem with the TextItem getType() method, it returns NULL.
We use 'SC_SNAPSHOT-2011-01-05/PowerEdition Deployment 2011-01-05'

Looking at the underlying code, the problem seems to be a mixup between the 'editorType' and 'type' attributes.

1) Constructor in TextItem:

public TextItem(){
setAttribute("editorType", "TextItem");
}

2) getType() method in FormItem:

public String getType() {
return getAttribute("type");
}

Was this intended?

[Isomorphic]

There were intentional changes in this area related to databinding.

What were you using the getType() API for? What it will generally return is the data type. A FormItem is not required to have a data type - it can validly be null.