I use this for OptionsCollection tag to genericaly decode: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/basicportal/bP/WEB-INF/src/war/com/baseBeans/scaffoldingXPress/coreBeans/OptionsSelBean.java .V
Tim Trentham wrote:
I've got a question that I'm sure had to have come up already at some point, but I can't seem to find the answer in the documentation or the mailing list archive. Is there a framework in place, perhaps through the bean tags, that allow you to convert form values that you've gotten from the database to user-friendly strings for display in a JSP?
For example, let's say that I have a field called "Priority". In my database, the field is stored as an integer and let's say there are only three values: 1,2,3. These three values correspond to human readable strings. Let's say they are: "Low", "Medium" and "High", respectively and they are stored somewhere in the web application. My first guess at this would be to store the human readable strings as a resource in the application.properties file, for instance, and then through a custom tag perhaps, convert the 1, 2 or 3 that's stored in the form bean to the corresponding user-friendly string when it's displayed.
There appears to be something similar to this for the html:options tag where you can pass a collection of label:value beans to the tag and it'll render an html combo box, but I don't see anything like what I'm talking about.
Is there an existing way to do what I'm talking about in Struts or am I on my own?
Thanks in advance,
Tim
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