handsontable/handsontable — pull request #1994 by thomasf1 (2014-12-21 20:23:29+00:00)
Title: Values no longer get converted to strings if they aren´t of the type str...

Hey guys,

We´re using Handsontable with complex datatypes (for example, storing multiple selections/Images or a Address validated by Google)

We´ve made 3 changes that might benefit the project as a whole (I´ll split them into 3 pull requests; the current issue in bold)
* **(non-string-datatypes)** There are some instances where non-string datatypes get converted into strings (even when using Renderers, the renderers get strings like "[object Object]")
* (autocorrecting-validators) We modified Validators to be able to correct inputs (like converting date-strings into dates). If the output isn´t boolean, the output of the validator corrects/overwrites the current value
* (copyRenderer) When displaying complex datatypes, using a Renderer works well, however when using copy&paste that fails, so we added a copyRender to be specified in the column.

This allows us to for example store a data as a date object and have it displayed in the format we want. Our other uses include arrays of values and images and geolocation.

The autocorrecting Validators are used like normal ones, but instead of returning true or false, they also can return a value.

The copyRenderer is used like this (in this example, a array of Images is converted into a comma separated list of the images URLs):

```coffeescript
@columns.push
data: "name"
renderer: someRenderer
copyRenderer: (cellProperties, value) ->
res = []
if isArray value
for file in value
res.push file.url
res.join(", ")
```
Do you guys think that would be beneficial for the project in general?

Thanks so much to the Handsontable team and contributors, you´re doing great work! Happy holidays!