Hi everybody, I am new to Struts 1.1, so I have a few questions about property formatting (I didn't find any answer in the list archives).
1) In the ActionForm, the bean properties should be String, it will avoid you formatting problems (especially with dates, if you want to use the html:text tag). Right ? NB: I know about the formatting capabilities of the JSTL taglib, and of the bean:write tag, but it seems that you have no way of formatting in the html:text tag. 2) As my business objects contain all kinds of types (double, long, java.util.Date, etc...), I need a way to transfer the content of one bean to another, in both directions: ActionForm (contains only String) <=> BusinessBean (contains all kinds of types) I think the right place to do the tranfer is in the Action classes. Right ? 3) I have seen that there are convert utils in the common-bean jar, and I have seen that the BeanUtils.copyProperties( ) method seems to answer my needs, but I couldn't make it work the way I want: when I want to tranfer ActionForm <= BusinessBean, the methods uses only the StringConverter (since the ActionForm contains only Strings), therefore I can't precise different patterns. I would like to tell the method: "the pattern for the dates is 'dd/MM/yyyy', the pattern for the doubles is '#.00', etc...", but the StringConverter knows only one pattern when you register it. Do I have to code my own StringConverter ? Thanks in advance, Marc. ___________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? -- Une adresse @yahoo.fr gratuite et en français ! Yahoo! Mail : http://fr.mail.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
