On Friday 09 April 2004 21:19, Paul Barry wrote: Generally, it's a good idea to have only String and boolean properties in an ActionForm and convert the information gathered for further processing lateron. For complex validations (like Dates), I usually check in validate() if the value entered can be successfully converted via SimpleDateFormat and do the actual conversion when populating the VO bean. But you can have 2 properties in the form as well.
HTH, -- Chris. BTW, as such conversions are needed quite often, it's a good idea to write a small utility function that does the conversion check and put it in either your BaseActionForm or some general utility class. > Yeah, I guess I could do that. I think need 2 properties. I would > create a dateAsString property, have the form get and set that, and > then have the getters and setters set and convert the actual Date. > This way I can call getDate to get a Date and getDateAsString to get > it as a formatted String. > > Are their other ways to handle this, so I don't need 2 properties? > > Slattery, Tim - BLS wrote: > >>ActionForm has a object that has a Date property that I want to > >> set. > >> > >>So I have > >> > >><html:text property="object.date"> > >> > >>If I populate the that property in the Action like this: > >> > >>MyObject obj = new MyObject(); > >>obj.setDate(new Date()); > >>form.setObject(obj); > >> > >>The html:text tag does a toString() on the object.date property. > >> How can I get it to display in the MM/DD/YYYY format instead? > >>Likewise, how > >>do I make it so the user can enter a date in the format of > >> MM/DD/YYYY and have it correctly set the Date property? > > > > I'd have the getter format the Date as a string (use > > SimpleDateFormat.format(), you can specify any of a wide variety of > > formats). Likewise, the setter should accept a string and use > > SimpleDateFormat.parse() to turn it into a Date. If parse() returns > > null then the String could not be turned into a Date, and you need > > to display an error message. > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > >-- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For > > additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
