IntegerItem incorrectly accepts and normalizes percentage input (e.g. 100% becomes 1)

[maisawres]

Hello Isomorphic team,

We would like to report what appears to be an unexpected input parsing issue when using SmartGWT IntegerItem.

Summary

• IntegerItem accepts percentage-formatted input (e.g. 100%, 200%) and normalizes it to an integer value (1, 2), even when integer-only validation is applied.
• SmartGWT documentation for IntegerItem does not mention percentage handling or normalization.
• This can lead to incorrect persisted values without any user-facing error.

Environment

• SmartClient Version: v12.1p_2021-07-14/PowerEdition Deployment (built 2021-07-14)
• Mode: SuperDev
• Browser: Chrome Version 146.0.7680.178 (Official Build) (64-bit)
• OS: Windows 11

Steps to Reproduce

1. Create a form field using IntegerItem
2. Instantiate IsIntegerValidator() and setErrorMessage()
3. Set IsIntegerValidator() to IntegerItem field
4. Enter a value containing a percent sign, for example: 200%
5. Save or read back the value

Expected Result	Actual Result
Percentage-formatted values should be rejected	Input is accept
Display error message	200% is normalized to 2

IntegerItem randomSamplingIntegerItem = new IntegerItem("randomSampling");

IsIntegerValidator integerValidator = new IsIntegerValidator();
integerValidator.setErrorMessage("An integer must be entered");

randomSamplingIntegerItem.setValidators(integerValidator);

Scope

• We verified that this behavior is not isolated to a single screen and occurs consistently across multiple IntegerItem fields within our application.

Questions

1. Is percentage parsing and normalization considered intended behavior for IntegerItem?
2. If not, is this a known issue or bug?
3. What is the recommended approach to enforce strict integer-only input (disallowing % and other locale-based numeric formats)?

Thank you for taking a look.