I'm wondering if protected configureFormatter(NumberFormat) is best, or if the better option is to have a protected void reconfigureFormatter(NumberFormat) method that is invokved at the end of that method.
So by default the configureFormatter is always run, and then the user can hook in to do whatever they want to the NumberFormat. A similar reconfigureFormatter(DateFormat) could be added to the FormatDateSupport class. What do you think? On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Stuart Thiel<stuart.th...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > A number of useful methods seem to be private. It makes sub-classing the > taglibs inconvenient. > > For example, I would like to extend FormatNumberTag so that I can change the > grouping separator. If configureFormatter in > org.apache.taglibs.standard.tag.common.fmt.FormatNumberSupport were > protected, instead of private, I could simply wrap it up and extend it in a > few lines of code and let polymorphism do its thing. > > As it stands, I'll need to duplicate most of the code from > FormatNumberSupport. > > -- > Stuart Thiel > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: taglibs-user-unsubscr...@jakarta.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: taglibs-user-h...@jakarta.apache.org
