I understand what you say...my DTO model is too complex, i know. Well, i will have to consider these things...
thanks Giovani Salvador ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hookom, Jacob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 5:28 PM Subject: RE: html:text and converter Isn't this issue resolved by using ActionForms correctly in the first place? They are meant to save/transport form state, which is composed of strings. When you want to represent form properties as Dates, Integers, etc, you may start running into issues. So if you have a DTO from a bean in the business model and want to pre-populate a form object, putting the Date object itself on the ActionForm would be incorrect IMHO. Instead, format the date object as a string and set that on the ActionForm. Basically having properties of anything but String or String[] seems silly in my opinion. Object attributes (Date, Integer, Long) should be left within the Action and Business layer DTO's. Again, since ActionForm objects represent UI data, they should be left as a String-- unless there's an html input type of 'java.util.Date'. -Jake -----Original Message----- From: Giovani Salvador [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 3:20 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: html:text and converter 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! 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