Thanks for your replies!
Yes, that's the way I wanted to do it originally, but I'm unsure how to get
a reference to a customerManager instance from withing my CustomerEditor ?
Mike Horwitz wrote:
>
> Not entirely sure what your logic needs to be, but the normal approach
> would
> be to associate your Application object with a pre-existing customer from
> the database. So your method would look more like (I have also changed the
> code to use commons lang, personal preference :-):
>
> public void setAsText(String text) throws IllegalArgumentException
> {
> Customer obj;
> if (StingUtils.isEmpty(text) ||
> !StingUtils.isNumeric(text))
> {
> setValue(null);
> } else {
> obj = customerManager.get(Long.parseLong(text));
> setValue(obj);
> }
> }
>
> Mike
>
> On 10/16/07, George.Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Would that be ApplicationFormController's initBinder method?
>> This is my setAsText method:
>>
>> public void setAsText(String text) throws IllegalArgumentException
>> {
>> Customer obj;
>> if (text == null || text.length() == 0) {
>> setValue(null);
>> } else {
>> obj = new Customer();
>> obj.setId(Long.parseLong(text));
>> setValue(obj);
>> }
>> }
>>
>>
>>
>> Mike Horwitz wrote:
>> >
>> > On 10/15/07, George.Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> OK, after reading this I assume I need to define a class
>> >> ApplicationBeanInfo
>> >> which extends SimpleBeanInfo, whose getPropertyDescriptors() method
>> uses
>> >> a
>> >> class CustomerEditor (which I also have to write) which extends
>> >> PropertyEditor?
>> >
>> >
>> > Not quite. You only need to write a CustomerEditor (easiest way is by
>> > extending PropertyEditorSupport and overriding the getAsText() and
>> > setAsText() methods) which you register in your controller using the
>> > initBinder() method: http://tinyurl.com/2sutrm
>> >
>> > Mike
>> >
>> > mraible wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> > 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?
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
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