I have an entity with a phoneNumber field. The format of this phone number is +9912345678..., the international number notation.
What I want to do is to have a text field that accepts phonenumbers in different formats. For example 0612345678, "06 12345678" but also +31612345678. Based on the locale I want to 'normalize' 0612345678 to +3112345678. I would like people to be able to enter a number in any format in a form field but have the model behind that to be updated to the international notation. (+NNNNNNNNNNNN) I wrote a simple SimpleConverterAdapter implementation: public class PhoneNumberConverter extends SimpleConverterAdapter { public String toString(Object value) { if (value instanceof String) { String phoneNumber = (String) value; // Always match on an international phone number if (internationalPhoneNumberPattern.matcher(phoneNumber).matches()) { return phoneNumber; } // Recognize dutch mobile numbers (06NNNNNNNN) if (dutchPhoneNumber.matcher(phoneNumber).matches()) { return "+31" + phoneNumber.substring(1); } } // If we cannot convert the object then throw an IllegalArgumentException. throw new IllegalArgumentException("Cannot convert non String objects"); } public Object toObject(String value) { return value == null ? null : value.toString(); } } but the behaviour is very odd. When I enter '0612345678' in the form and submit it, I get an error message saying that 0612345678 is not a valid phone number (this is done by the PhoneNumberValidator) but the phone number form field is updated to +316512345678. When I press submit again then all is ok of course. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong here. I simply want to accept input in several formats. S. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Wicket-user mailing list Wicket-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wicket-user