Re: [OS-webwork] Type conversion

[John Patterson]

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Thanks for all the support on WW!  I always get very helpful responses from this group. ----- Original Message ----- From: Jason Carreira To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 2:50 PM Subject: RE: [OS-webwork] Type conversion   -----Original Message----- From: John Patterson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 9:42 AM To: Webwork Subject: [OS-webwork] Type conversion What is happening with the type conversion functionality?  I need to be able to override the conversion both to and from string easily.  xwork-conversion.properties only allows me to specify one way.    If you specify a converter for the one direction and it is trying to convert from your type TO a String, it will also try to use that same converter (so make them bidirectional)    Is there any plans to allow you to configure a converter seperatly for each property?  For example, I have several dates which appear on a page in different formats.  It would be great to be able to specify in xwork.xml the format to be used for each property.  Or would this be best handled in a tag lib (to presentation specific)?      This can be done now. You would have a MyAction-conversion.properties which specifies the conversions for this specific class (by field name). I'm not sure if Pat has fully documented this?    Maybe if the PropertyTag had a format attribute which was somehow passed to the TypeConverter...   <ww:property value="startDate" format="dd MMM yyyy"/>   ...or something like that.   John.    Also on the type conversion front... I checked in yesterday a change to make type conversion problems add field errors to your Action... let me know if it's working for you.   Jason