I would like to state a basic assumption I deduced in learning struts, then pose a question.
Assumption: ActionForm property getters and setters should return and take Strings. My initial impulse was to try passing the actual data types (Dates, Numbers, etc.); however, the Struts mechanism seems to pass Strings to the ActionForm setter methods on form submission (which throws a conversion Exception of course). Then I tried making the setters take Strings, and getters return the actual data types, but this seemed to confuse the introspection mechanism; plus I didn't see any way to apply formatting inside the html:text tags (like you can in JSTL's fmt:format tags). Question: How does one handle formatting data (custom formatting or i18n) for (pre/re)population of a form? Ex.: An update form; a user's information is loaded from the database into classes (Strings, Dates, Numbers, etc.). If you want to format this data, you have to do it in the Model, as the ActionForm only takes and gives Strings - which seems to be a Bad Practice. Even if you had additional special setters for the explicit purpose of populating the ActionForm from original data types, you still don't know what Locale the client is from. Is my assumption incorrect? Is there a basic flaw in my understanding of the use of ActionForm? Or there an actual short-coming, and workaround? In short, How Can You Format Data For Strut's Form Tags Inside The Actual JSP :-) ? Thank you for any input. -Sasha --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
