Hello All, I've been trying to wrap my mind around this. I have a ValueBoject model that has a date properties and number properties (one of many) that are bound to a TextInput fields on a form. What's the best way to handle two-way data validating that the text input has a valid date in it. More importantly, how do you bind a specifically formatted date from the Model. Say my model has a valid Date on it, and I want to have it displayed in a textBox as 12/10/2007. The user changes the text box, and then I want the model to have a valid Date object from the input text. The key here is that the format input by a user and the format displayed in the TextInput is different than the raw data that is bound to the model. What to do if I bind a new date that hasn't been set in the model yet and I want something like a "-" (Hyphen) to appear in the form. It seems like the default databinding functionality breaks down pretty quickly. What are some of the techniques people use to convert items on a VO object for display purposes in a form, take form input and format it for specific model data? Or, do I just need to not use default databinding of my model to form inputs and instead have a method, that takes the VO, and manually binds the data, doing the appropriate conversions as necessary. And then to go the other way, after the form has been filled in and is validated, covert to the model?
Thanks for any suggestions.
