Re: Design question on BeanUtils.populate()

2002-09-26 Thread robert burrell donkin
. McClanahan wrote: On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Scott Sanders wrote: Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 19:41:53 -0700 From: Scott Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Jakarta Commons Developers List commons- [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jakarta Commons Developers List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Design question

RE: Design question on BeanUtils.populate()

2002-09-25 Thread Steve Wilkinson
-Original Message- From: Tim Moore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 11:12 AM To: Jakarta Commons Developers List Subject: RE: Design question on BeanUtils.populate() How would you set something to an empty string, then? -- Tim Moore / Blackboard Inc

RE: Design question on BeanUtils.populate()

2002-09-25 Thread Joe Germuska
At 11:59 AM -0600 2002/09/25, Steve Wilkinson wrote: Please don't take my question the wrong way, I'm not trying to start a flame war here. I'm just saying the specification says that it's not to set the attribute on the bean if there is an empty string retrieved from the request. RE: How

RE: Design question on BeanUtils.populate()

2002-09-25 Thread Tim Moore
-Original Message- From: Steve Wilkinson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 2:00 PM To: 'Jakarta Commons Developers List' Subject: RE: Design question on BeanUtils.populate() Please don't take my question the wrong way, I'm not trying to start

Re: Design question on BeanUtils.populate()

2002-09-25 Thread Craig R. McClanahan
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Steve Wilkinson wrote: Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 10:36:28 -0600 From: Steve Wilkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Jakarta Commons Developers List [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Design question on BeanUtils.populate() All

RE: Design question on BeanUtils.populate()

2002-09-25 Thread Scott Sanders
Although jsp:setProperty was one of the inspirations that led to the creation of BeanUtils.populate(), I chose not to slavishly copy the JSP semantics -- in particular the very very wierd handling of zero-length Strings. I found it much more useful in typical form fill-in scenarios to

RE: Design question on BeanUtils.populate()

2002-09-25 Thread Craig R. McClanahan
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Scott Sanders wrote: Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 19:41:53 -0700 From: Scott Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Jakarta Commons Developers List [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jakarta Commons Developers List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Design question on BeanUtils.populate