Hi Clint, That is there to make the exception more informative in case someone catches it and interrogates it for the value that caused it.
-Igor On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Clint Checketts <checke...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm really enjoying Igor's Wicket > Cookbook<https://www.packtpub.com/apache-wicket-cookbook/book>(hooray > for ebooks and instant delivery!) > > Instead of asking Igor directly, I figure this mailing list is a better > forum. > > There is an example (page 30) like the following: > > ConversionException e = new ConversionException( > "Error converting value: " + value + " to an instance of: " > + Time.class.getName()); > *e.setSourceValue(value);* > e.setVariable("inputPiece", value); > e.setResourceKey(getClass().getSimpleName() + "." + errorKey); > > My question is the purpose of 'setSourceValue()' call. I suspected it was to > leverage the converted value in validation messages, but ${input} already > has that value. Next I figured it could be used for the sub piece of a > conversion, like in parsing a time of day (11:15am) then is the minute > section was wrong (11:99am) the it would expose that specific value, but > setVariable() meets that need: > > e.setVariable("inputPiece", value); > > The previous line makes ${inputPiece} available in Validation messages. > > So what does setSourceValue() do? > > -Clint > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@wicket.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@wicket.apache.org
