diff --git a/java_tools/ConfigDefinition.jar b/java_tools/ConfigDefinition.jar
index 5563da07d4..96110ee601 100644
Binary files a/java_tools/ConfigDefinition.jar and b/java_tools/ConfigDefinition.jar differ
diff --git a/java_tools/configuration_definition/src/com/rusefi/output/JavaFieldsConsumer.java b/java_tools/configuration_definition/src/com/rusefi/output/JavaFieldsConsumer.java
index 45d2676f8f..b40d21f8bb 100644
--- a/java_tools/configuration_definition/src/com/rusefi/output/JavaFieldsConsumer.java
+++ b/java_tools/configuration_definition/src/com/rusefi/output/JavaFieldsConsumer.java
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 package com.rusefi.output;
 
+import com.opensr5.ini.IniFileModel;
 import com.rusefi.*;
 
 import java.io.CharArrayWriter;
@@ -75,8 +76,11 @@ public abstract class JavaFieldsConsumer implements ConfigurationConsumer {
                 javaFieldsWriter.write("\tpublic static final String[] " + configField.getType() + " = {" + enumOptions + "};" + EOL);
             }
 
+
             writeJavaFieldName(nameWithPrefix, tsPosition);
-            if (configField.getElementSize() == 1) {
+            if (isStringField(configField)) {
+                javaFieldsWriter.write("FieldType.STRING");
+            } else  if (configField.getElementSize() == 1) {
                 javaFieldsWriter.write("FieldType.INT8");
             } else if (configField.getElementSize() == 2) {
                 javaFieldsWriter.write("FieldType.INT16");
@@ -94,6 +98,11 @@ public abstract class JavaFieldsConsumer implements ConfigurationConsumer {
         return tsPosition;
     }
 
+    private boolean isStringField(ConfigField configField) {
+        String custom = state.tsCustomLine.get(configField.getType());
+        return custom != null && custom.toLowerCase().startsWith(IniFileModel.FIELD_TYPE_STRING);
+    }
+
     public void handleEndStruct(ConfigStructure structure) throws IOException {
         if (state.stack.isEmpty()) {
             writeJavaFields(structure.tsFields, "", 0);
diff --git a/java_tools/configuration_definition/src/com/rusefi/test/ConfigFieldParserTest.java b/java_tools/configuration_definition/src/com/rusefi/test/ConfigFieldParserTest.java
index dbdb08317d..83bc7d5962 100644
--- a/java_tools/configuration_definition/src/com/rusefi/test/ConfigFieldParserTest.java
+++ b/java_tools/configuration_definition/src/com/rusefi/test/ConfigFieldParserTest.java
@@ -4,13 +4,14 @@ import com.rusefi.ConfigField;
 import com.rusefi.ReaderState;
 import com.rusefi.TypesHelper;
 import com.rusefi.VariableRegistry;
-import com.rusefi.output.ConfigurationConsumer;
 import com.rusefi.output.FsioSettingsConsumer;
 import com.rusefi.output.JavaFieldsConsumer;
-import com.rusefi.output.TSProjectConsumer;
 import org.junit.Test;
 
-import java.io.*;
+import java.io.BufferedReader;
+import java.io.CharArrayWriter;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.StringReader;
 import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.Collections;
 
@@ -114,7 +115,7 @@ public class ConfigFieldParserTest {
         JavaFieldsConsumer javaFieldsConsumer = new TestJavaFieldsConsumer(state);
         state.readBufferedReader(reader, Arrays.asList(javaFieldsConsumer));
 
-        assertEquals("\tpublic static final Field VAR = Field.create(\"VAR\", 0, FieldType.INT);\n" +
+        assertEquals("\tpublic static final Field VAR = Field.create(\"VAR\", 0, FieldType.STRING);\n" +
                         "\tpublic static final Field PERIODMS = Field.create(\"PERIODMS\", 120, FieldType.INT16);\n",
                 javaFieldsConsumer.getJavaFieldsWriter());