Re: html:text and converter

[Brad Balmer]

This may be considered a workaround instead of a fix to the problem but 
have you considered writing another get property for your 
dtIniRealProjecto value that returns the formatted value?

Something like:
...
private java.util.Date date = null;
...
public java.util.Date getDate() {
   return this.date;
}
//Also create a pre-formatted String of the Date Object
public String getFormattedDate() {
   java.text.SimpleDateFormat formatter = new 
java.text.SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss");
   return formatter.format(getDate());
}
...



Giovani Salvador wrote:

Donīt worry Hubert....well, i will try explain more detailed....

I have  a jsp page with the following tag

<html:text name="projeto" property="dtIniRealProjeto" maxlength="10"
size="10" />
Ok, the attribute "name" means that my object has the name "projeto". Itīs a
DTO that an action class
put in the request.
Well, the html:text will render an input text catching the value from the
"dtIniRealProjeto" attribute of my object
"project". But this attribute is of Calendar type. Then, what appear in the
browser is the instance representation of
this calendar, no the date values. So i want to format this values before
presentation and make the html:text show
the formatted data.
Thatīs the problem, one solution could be using the action form but if i
have a DTO with the values, why must i have to
copy all values back to Action Form? Donīt you thin this is time-consuming,
cpu-consuming, memory-consuming?
I think the major question is:
How can i use the html:text to get value from an object (DTO or Action Form)
and FORMAT it????
I have seen in the archives many questions and no real answer.

Thanks

Giovani Salvador



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hubert Rabago" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 4:27 PM
Subject: Re: html:text and converter

 

Yes, that last msg wasn't much help.  Maybe if you provide a bigger
   

picture of
 

the situation, other folks can give you alternatives.  Or at least help
   

convince
 

you of the advantages to using AFs.

--- Hubert Rabago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
   

Perhaps it's time to consider using AFs.  :)

--- Giovani Salvador <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
     

The problem is that i am not showing the data with the action form. I
       

use
 

the html:text to read
directly from my DTO and, unfortunatly, no conversion is made.  :(
Giovani Salvador

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hubert Rabago" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 3:14 PM
Subject: Re: html:text and converter

       

You'll have to format the data that you're passing to your
         

ActionForm.  If
 

you're
       

extending from ActionForm (but not using a Dyna form), perhaps you
         

can
 

format the
       

data in your setField() method, or before returning from a
         

getField()
 

method.
       

--- Giovani Salvador <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
         

Hi all...

Is there a way to force that html:text call a converter? My
           

problem is
 

that i
       

am trying to format
a date before showing it with html:text tag and a possible way is
           

to
 

pass by
       

the StringConverter class,
for example. By debugging the jakarta commons beans i perceveid
           

that
 

this call
       

is not made. Any tip
on how to force passing by the StringConverter?
Thanks.

Giovani Salvador

           

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