Ravi, >From my understanding of OGNL, it *should* use the model object's conversion descriptor. It's probably more surprising that it called convertFromString without it. Are you using defaultStack?
I believe providing the model object's descriptor is the correct approach, and you indicate that it's working. So why the long face? ;-) -----Original Message----- From: ravi_eze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 11:45 PM To: user@struts.apache.org Subject: Type converters: please help!!! :( hi, i badly need the solution to this problem. i had posted this issue on xwork forums, struts fourms previously also, but hardluck: no reply :( i am reposting the same again... atleast let me know if this idea itself is wrong!!! or any better approach/ is there? ravi_eze wrote: > > hi, > > We have Action class with Employee Object with setters and getters. The > Typeconverter was configured to be called when <EmployeeObject.empId> is > called by the jsp page. We found that convertFromString of type converter > is being called but convertToString is never called. Any idea why this is > happening? The details are as follows: > > Type converter: > public class LongConverter extends StrutsTypeConverter { > public Object convertFromString(Map context, String[] values, Class > toClass) { > ... .... > } > public String convertToString(Map context, Object o) { > ... .... > } > } > > in actionClass-conversion.properties located along with the class file in > the same package: > employee.empId=com.comp.util.converter.LongConverter > > After some debugging we found that we need to add a new file: > Employee-conversion.properties in the same package of Employee class with > entries: > empId=com.comp.util.converter.LongConverter > > and only then the convertToString would be called. I think we should have > only one conversion.prop file instead of 2. Any ideas why this is > happening this way? or am i missing any thing? please help. > > cheers, > ravi > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Type-converters%3A-convertToString-not-called-tp150349 25p15080943.html Sent from the Struts - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
