I wouldn't have even thought of using the tags for non-HTML-related work; they're form tags.
I'd use the collection directly; much cleaner and easier to understand, or I'd expose it as serialized JSON. Everything looks like a thumb when tags are your hammer. Dave On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Jason Pyeron <jpye...@pdinc.us> wrote: > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Dave Newton [mailto:davelnew...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 13:02 >> To: Struts Developers List >> Subject: Re: Fielderrors tag and the simple theme >> >> Fields can have multiple errors; I'm assuming the list-always >> thing is to handle both single and multiple errors in the >> same way. That said, with reasonable CSS, shouldn't be an issue, no? > > Yes and no. I always try to take the path of least surprise and extra html > tags > in the simple theme could be a surprise. My opinion would be to expose > attributes startHtml, endHtml, startItemHtml, endItemHtml. Yes using them > would > loose the handling of many of the default atributes, like cssClass. I just do > not think that a developer/designer should have to create a new tempate/theme > to > output bare results. I also think manual inspection of the error values in the > stack would be ugly code too. > > Ex: > <s:fielderror fieldName="foo" startHtml="" endHtml="" startItemHtml="" > endItemHtml="<br>" /> > > Imagine trying to use this in javascript... > > ...=<s:fielderror fieldName="foo" startHtml="{" endHtml="}" startItemHtml='"' > endItemHtml='",' />; > > > > >> >> Dave >> >> On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Jason Pyeron >> <jpye...@pdinc.us> wrote: >> > I have been lementing how the fielderror tag forces a list >> around even >> > when it is called as <s:fielderror fieldName="foo" /> >> > >> > Does anyone have some comments about why this is good or if >> not how it >> > should perform? >> > > > > -- > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > - - > - Jason Pyeron PD Inc. http://www.pdinc.us - > - Principal Consultant 10 West 24th Street #100 - > - +1 (443) 269-1555 x333 Baltimore, Maryland 21218 - > - - > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > This message is copyright PD Inc, subject to license 20080407P00. > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@struts.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@struts.apache.org
