The following comment has been added to this issue:
Author: Cameron Braid
Created: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 6:10 AM
Body:
I have given this a go.. I dunno if I have produced the best soloution, though it
seems to work with my requirements.
As soon as I work out how to run "ant test" I'll make sure that it works with the
existing tests, create a specific unit test, and commit it.
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Key: WW-271
Summary: Converter framework needs to be able to support plugable to String
converters
Type: Improvement
Status: Assigned
Priority: Major
Project: WebWork
Components:
Views
Fix Fors:
2.0
Assignee: Patrick Lightbody
Reporter: Cameron Braid
Created: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 10:03 AM
Updated: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 1:01 PM
Description:
Currently they conversion framework allows for plugable converters that are used when
converting http request string values into the action properties.
This works really well.
However, when converting action properties to strings the vm macros use toString().
I believe that this system needs to be configurable. Allowing user defined converter
classes to be specified for converting to string.
I also propose that a public API be created to allow reuse of the converters within
actions and views.
i.e. a custom form that posts to an action. The action doesn't use the
params-interceptor because the number of form fields are determined at runtime. The
action processes the http request itself, calling
CustomClass cc =
(CustomClass)ConverterManager.getInstance().convertFromString(requestMap.get("thingy"),
CustomClass.class);
AND
in a velocity view. Put the ConverterManager instance as into the velo context as
$converterManager
#foreach $item in $items
<input type='text'
value='${stringUtil.toHtml(converterManager.convertToString($item))}'>
#end
Some reasons for having this feature :
a) most of the custom types in our applications use interfaces, with dynamic proxies.
I wish to not rely on toString()
b) allows customization of default date formatting, numeric formatting, etc..
ALSO :
As demonstrated above, there exists a need to a stringUtil class to escape HTML.
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