> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Mitchell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 12:46 PM
> To: Struts Users Mailing List
> Subject: Re: Date format woes
>
>
> You wouldn't happen to have another setter method that
> accepts a different
> type (e.g. Date) would you?
>
> for example:
>
> ...
> ...
>
> public void setExpirationDate(Date expirationDate){
Or the setValue(String foo) and Date getValue is confusing struts when it's doing it's
introspection thing.
>
> ...
> ...
>
>
>
>
> --
> James Mitchell
> Software Engineer / Open Source Evangelist
> EdgeTech, Inc.
> 678.910.8017
> AIM: jmitchtx
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Slattery, Tim - BLS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 3:39 PM
> Subject: Date format woes
>
>
> > I've got a page in my Struts web app that displays a date. It uses
> > <fmt:formatDate...> to read a date from the form bean and
> format it for
> > display. I also want to put that date into a
> <html:hidden...> field so
> that
> > it can be reloaded when the page is submitted and redisplayed.
> >
> > The getter returns a Date. The <fmt:formatDate tag gets
> this and converts
> it
> > to the "default" format (Sep 9, 2005). No problem there. The
> > <html:hidden...> tag retrieves also retrieves it and
> converts it to this:
> > 2005-09-09.
> >
> > The getter returns a Date, the setter takes a String and
> converts it to a
> > Date. Or it tries to. I've put debug print into the setter, and it
> > apparently is not getting called at all! What's going on?
> >
> > The app is running in Jboss 3.2.5
> >
> > Here are my getter and setter pair:
> >
> > /** setter for expirationDate
> > @param String new value for expirationDate
> > */
> > public void setExpirationDate(String expirationDate)
> > {
> > System.out.println("New date: " + expirationDate);
> > try
> > {
> > SimpleDateFormat sdf = new
> SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
> > this.expirationDate = sdf.parse(expirationDate);
> > }
> > catch (ParseException ex)
> > {
> > System.out.println("format failed: " + ex.getMessage());
> > this.expirationDate = null;
> > }
> > }
> >
> > /** getter for expirationDate
> > @return Date value of expirationDate
> > */
> > public Date getExpirationDate()
> > {
> > return expirationDate;
> > }
> >
> > Here are the tags from the jsp page:
> >
> > <strong>Expiration Date: </strong><fmt:formatDate
> > dateStyle="default"
> > value="${UpdPending.expirationDate}"/><BR>
> > <html-el:hidden property="expirationDate"/>
> >
> >
> > --
> > Tim Slattery
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
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