title: Getting value from multi-valued field in 8.5.1 and 8.5.3
body: <p>Recently we upgraded our servers from 8.5.1 to 8.5.3 and we encountered a problem. Lets say you have a multi value field in XPages like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;xp:inputText id="inputText1" multipleTrim="true"&gt;
      &lt;xp:this.multipleSeparator&gt;&lt;![CDATA[#{javascript:"\n";}]]&gt;&lt;/xp:this.multipleSeparator&gt;
  &lt;/xp:inputText&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>In 8.5.1 when we wrote <code>getComponent("inputText1").getValue()</code> it used to return a string with all the values separated by comma. So we used to do this - <code>@Explode(getComponent("inputText1").getValue(), ",")</code>.</p>
  
  <p>But now in 8.5.3 <code>getComponent("inputText1").getValue()</code> returns an actual array with multiple values in it due to which our existing code is failing.</p>
  
  <p>The current behavior seems correct to me but is it going to change again in future releases? Is their a way to modify this behavior without modifying any code (because we will have to make a lot of modifications)?</p>