Re: MVC Design: property in ActionForm or Bean with property in A ctionForm ?

2002-10-31 Thread Marcus Biel
yes of course I know! But how can I be sure that this String is a Integer ? I mean I can simply convert this String to an Integer, but I doubt this would help, cause a String can get converted to an Integer. (Like A is 65 I think) So how can I be sure that the user typed 65 and not A ? Marcus

RE: MVC Design: property in ActionForm or Bean with property in A ctionForm ?

2002-10-31 Thread Galbreath, Mark
Check out the static methods of the java.lang.Character class. isDigit() should solve your dilemma. Mark -Original Message- From: Marcus Biel [mailto:Marcus.Biel;bmw.de] Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 7:04 AM yes of course I know! But how can I be sure that this String is a Integer ?

RE: MVC Design: property in ActionForm or Bean with property in A ctionForm ?

2002-10-31 Thread Andrew Hill
What is a 'good-practice' method of validating a numeric string? Ive been lazy and am doing a Integer.parseInt() in a try catch but its probably far from the best way... (Have been meaning to check out the java.text.NumberFormat stuff but always had more interes... uh... important things to do

RE: MVC Design: property in ActionForm or Bean with property in A ctionForm ?

2002-10-31 Thread Galbreath, Mark
Well, Marcus was just asking how he could differentiate between an input of A vs 65 (text vs digit). The simplest way I know is something like: char test = request( getParameter( formObject1 )).charAt( 0 ); if( Character.isDigit( test ) { doSomething(); } If you want to validate the accuracy

Re: MVC Design: property in ActionForm or Bean with property in A ctionForm ?

2002-10-31 Thread Marcus Biel
But remember we got Strings, not Characters. Sorry I know this is dumb, but today I worked this much, I really can't get a clear mind. 8-) marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Check out the static methods of the java.lang.Character class. isDigit() should solve your dilemma. Mark -- To

RE: MVC Design: property in ActionForm or Bean with property in A ctionForm ?

2002-10-31 Thread Galbreath, Mark
See my response to Andrew for taking a String and getting a char out of it - posted about an hour ago. Mark -Original Message- From: Marcus Biel [mailto:Marcus.Biel;bmw.de] Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 8:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: MVC Design: property in ActionForm or

RE: MVC Design: property in ActionForm or Bean with property in A ctionForm ?

2002-10-31 Thread Andrew Hill
hehe, I know the feeling :-) -Original Message- From: Marcus Biel [mailto:Marcus.Biel;bmw.de] Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 21:27 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: MVC Design: property in ActionForm or Bean with property in A ctionForm ? But remember we got Strings, not Characters.