When I define services in XML file (which defined UI) which used by com.atlassian.jira.service.AbstractService#getObjectConfiguration()

There is some field type. But the mapping with String and text is strange.
When I define string, It's represented by an unlimited text input.
A UI controle limits to 255 chars the flied value, otherwise

Errors

• Error occurred trying to update service properties: com.opensymphony.module.propertyset.IllegalPropertyException: String exceeds 255 characters

It stored in PROPERTYSTRING limited to 4000 chars,

When I define text, It's represented by an unlimited text area.
But it also stored in PROPERTYSTRING, where I expect it to be stored in PROPERTYTEXT

So actually :

It would be more consistent to do

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<userservice id="service_id">
<description>description</description>
<properties>
...
<property>
	<key>Key</key>
	<name>name</name>
	<description>description</description>
	<type>string</type>
</property>
<property>
	<key>another key</key>
	<name>another name</name>
	<description>another description</description>
	<type>string</type>
</property>
...
</properties>
</userservice>