primefaces: DataTable: Global FilterFunction Broken

Describe the defect Working on a showcase example to put back the old GlobalFilterFunction and the functionality has changed.

                <p:dataTable var="customer" value="#{dtFilterView.customers2}" widgetVar="customersTable2"
                    emptyMessage="No customers found with given criteria"
                    filteredValue="#{dtFilterView.filteredCustomers2}" filterBy="#{dtFilterView.filterBy}"
                    globalFilterFunction="#{dtFilterView.globalFilterFunction}">

                    <f:facet name="header">
                        <div class="p-text-left">
                            <h:outputText value="Search all fields using globalFilterFunction:" />
                            <p:inputText id="globalFilter" onkeyup="PF('customersTable2').filter()" style="width:150px"
                                placeholder="Enter keyword" />
                        </div>
                    </f:facet>

 public boolean globalFilterFunction(Object value, Object filter, Locale locale) {
        String filterText = (filter == null) ? null : filter.toString().trim().toLowerCase();
        if (LangUtils.isValueBlank(filterText)) {
            return true;
        }
        int filterInt = getInteger(filterText);

        Customer customer = (Customer) value;
        return customer.getName().toLowerCase().contains(filterText)
                || customer.getCountry().getName().toLowerCase().contains(filterText)
                || customer.getRepresentative().getName().toLowerCase().contains(filterText)
                || customer.getStatus().name().toLowerCase().contains(filterText)
                || customer.getActivity() < filterInt;
    }

its expecting the value to be the Customer POJO and right now it is just passing it each individual column value as a String which causes java.lang.ClassCastException: java.lang.String cannot be cast to org.primefaces.showcase.domain.Customer.

The old code was passing the table.RowData();

if (hasGlobalFilter && globalFilterFunction != null) {
                globalMatch = (Boolean) globalFilterFunction.invoke(elContext, new Object[]{table.getRowData(), globalFilterValue, filterLocale});
            }

But the new code is passing each individual column.