You need a PropertyEditor to translate the "id" that's coming for Customer to a real customer object from your database.
http://www.springframework.org/docs/reference/validation.html Matt On 10/12/07, George.Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, I have two entities in my Spring MVC app, 'Application' and 'Customer'. > The Application edit form has a drop-down list of Customers so that one can > be associated with the Application. THis is done via the following tags in > the JSP; > > <form:select path="customer"> > <form:options items="${customers}" itemValue="id" > itemLabel="name"/> > </form:select> > > When I submit the form I get a validation error: > "Failed to convert property value of type [java.lang.String] to required > type [com.ism.ismid.model.Customer] for property customer; nested exception > is java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Cannot convert value of type > [java.lang.String] to required type [com.ism.ismid.model.Customer] for > property customer: no matching editors or conversion strategy found" > > Can someone see why this is happening? > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Problemn-associating-entities-via-form-tf4616135s2369.html#a13183354 > Sent from the AppFuse - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- http://raibledesigns.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
