You are correct, currently there can only be one type converter per property. So a view trying to do something like:
Date (short): <ww:property value="someDate"/> Date (long): <ww:property value="someDate"/> ... would be very tought with the current code. Open a bug and we'll get to it as soon as 2.0 is released. -Pat ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Patterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 6:44 AM Subject: Re: [OS-webwork] Type conversion > Indeed this seems to be the best solution to the common text formatting > problem... > > <ww:property value="formateDate(startDate,'dd MMM yyyy')"/> > > Thanks. > > But it does point out that the current type conversion scheme is very > limited as a text formatting mechanism. Property based format > configuration is adequate for text input (ie from html forms) but an > approach similar to the code above is necessary for output (ie into the > view). Maybe it would be better to not use this TypeConverter functionality > for the textual output of to views. > > The TypeConverter approach does not allow for the different types of > formatting that may be required in a view. For example, to output a date as > both a time part and a date part or to shorten a long description String > into an short abstract. For these types of formatting issues maybe a new > "formatting" API should be created that can be controlled at the view level > directly with tags. > > But for now I will roll my own text formatting like the above. > > John > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Francisco Hernandez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 8:10 PM > Subject: Re: [OS-webwork] Type conversion > > > > I would probably just put a formatDate() method in my BaseAction class > > and use something like: > > > > <ww:property value="formateDate(startDate,'dd MMM yyyy')"/> > > > > > > John Patterson wrote: > > > 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. > > > > > > 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)? > > > > > > 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. > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > > Welcome to geek heaven. > > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > > _______________________________________________ > > Opensymphony-webwork mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensymphony-webwork > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > Opensymphony-webwork mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensymphony-webwork > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Opensymphony-webwork mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensymphony-webwork
