"Vic Cekvenich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message b2u5oq$p8b$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:b2u5oq$p8b$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Thanks as always Ted and Martin. > I would still have to format the number in the bean for Form, and > localize dates (for the Candian dates), etc in the bean class. If the > page is read only, I would format in JSP.
I guess I don't understand. Why do you need to do formatting in the bean, and why is it different if the page is read-only? You should be able to use JSTL to do this in either case. -- Martin Cooper > So far getAge() and > getAgeInt() look ok. I wonder which way the faces tag will work. > (yes, if know, if I copied data for the form bean .... but if I have > nested and multi row and many to many, it's kind of a pain; one day I > will write reflection with dynaRowSet to clone nesting, localize, format > and put in basicPortal) > .V > > Martin Cooper wrote: > > "Vic Cekvenich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > b2t728$t7c$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:b2t728$t7c$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > > >>I have been nudging people toiwards JSTL. > >>A nice feature is FMT tag that formats the number, date, etc. in the > >>JSP. FMT tag needs the formBeans to return int! > > > > > > No, it does not. If you provide a string to the format tags, such as > > <fmt:formatNumber>, it will convert it to the appropriate numeric type. Try > > the following: > > > > ----- cut here ----- > > <%@ taglib prefix="fmt" uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/fmt"; %> > > > > <% > > request.setAttribute("foo", "1234567890"); > > %> > > > > <fmt:formatNumber value="${foo}" type="currency"/> > > ----- cut here ----- > > > > To avoid any question of what other JSTL tags might be doing, I've > > explicitly stored a string in a request attribute. The output from the above > > page is: > > > > $1,234,567,890.00 > > > > The <fmt:formatNumber> tag did its job just fine when passed a string > > instead of an integer. > > > > -- > > Martin Cooper > > > > > > > >>So if one does a FORM for updates you create formbean with String > >>getAge(), and number formated in Java before returning the String. > >> > >>If then you just want to display the # (no update) you need to create a > >>bean with int getAge(), and FMT it in JSP. > >> > >> > >>So return int for JSTL and String for formBean. > >> > >>A prefered solution is that HTML tag is able to do formating like FMT tag. > >> > >> > >>.V > >> > >>Also, it be nice if tiles was able to do some EL, or have a nicer way of > >>FORWARDING to diferent JSP from the tile action one day. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
