[jira] Created: (WW-3184) Type conversion & s:select

[Denis Cabasson (JIRA)]

Type conversion & s:select
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                 Key: WW-3184
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/struts/browse/WW-3184
             Project: Struts 2
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: Core Actions
    Affects Versions: 2.1.6
         Environment: Struts 2.1.6
            Reporter: Denis Cabasson


Hi,

So I'm trying to understand a little bit better the way type conversion is 
supposed to work in struts 2/Xwork 2 and I really don't get it. The part I am 
missing is when is that conversion applied, and on what basis?

My use case is an action that must present a select box containing dates. So 
hoping to have struts 2 do all the heavy lifting, I create my action with a 
field
{code}
private List<Date> theDates;
{code}
fills it with the right date and render it on the JSP :
{code}
<s:select list="theDates" name="theDate" />
{code}
I have a field on my action to receive this date parameter :
{code}
private Date theDate;
{code}

The problem is that the generated HTML content is :
{code}
<select name="theDate" id="index_theDate">
    <option value="Mon Jul 13 15:01:21 EDT 2009">7/13/09</option>
    <option value="Sun Jul 12 15:01:21 EDT 2009">7/12/09</option>
</select>
{code}

What I don't get is that the body of the option has been correctly converted, 
while the value is not at all converted (that looks like a simple toString to 
me). So of course, the conversion from the toString version of the date to a 
date object is failing.

Now I don't get what I did wrong there, and how this is supposed to work. 
Definitely this looks wrong to me, cause the value is the most important thing 
in the option. But I couldn't find a way of getting that converted.

Any advise?

Thanks for any help.

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