Your right, I had some strange behaviour in the past when working with the
base types (I thought), but looking at the BeanUtils code, I see that I was
too quick to blame the base types. Should work fine indeed.
And... as a hint to miss Scott: stuff like mapping <select> to String[]
works fine as well!
Eelco
----- Original Message -----
From: "jim moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 3:43 PM
Subject: Re: [Mav-user] Newbie: Setters appear to not being called...
> also,
>
> mav (through bean utils) will do the datatype conversion for you, so
instead
> of :
>
> public void setTerm(string term) {
> this.term = stringToDouble(value);
> }
>
> you can just have:
>
> public void setTerm(double term) {
> this.term = term;
> }
>
> --jim
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Eelco Hillenius" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 8:26 AM
> Subject: Re: [Mav-user] Newbie: Setters appear to not being called...
>
>
> > Maverick uses Commons BeanUtils to populate its beans (like the
> controllers
> > in your case). BeanUtils does not populate any fields that do not have a
> > getter as well. The solution is to include the getters (like getTerm()
> > etc.).
> >
> > Eelco
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Kimberley Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Cc: "Kimberley Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 2:09 PM
> > Subject: [Mav-user] Newbie: Setters appear to not being called...
> >
> >
> > Hiya,
> >
> > Just started using maverick. Luv it. Gotta slight problem and feeling
I'm
> > going mad. I think I've got it wrong about how you extend controllers. I
> > have this app I'm building, and have a problem where the setters for
form
> > variables are not being called. I just know I'm doing something wrong,
but
> > can't see where, and I've re-read the manual supplied (thankyou guys)
and
> > studied the 'pig' with no luck. I've got cut-down code below and would
> love
> > any help people can give me:
> >
> > classes:
> > public class ControllerErrorable extends ThrowawayBean2
> > {
> > ... hasErrors, getErrors etc...
> > }
> >
> > public class Menu extends ControllerErrorable
> > {
> > ...setters and getters for some menu stuff...
> > protected String perform()
> > throws Exception
> > {
> > super.perform();
> > ...other stuff
> > }
> > }
> >
> > public class Calculator extends Menu
> > {
> > ...setters and getters for special calculations...
> > ...and also:
> > public void setTerm(String value)
> > {
> > System.out.println("Hey! How come I'm not being called?");
> > this.term = stringToDouble(value);
> > }
> > protected String perform()
> > throws Exception
> > {
> > super.perform();
> > ...other stuff
> > }
> > }
> >
> > maverick.xml:
> > <command name="calculator">
> > <controller class="com.dcg.ctl.Calculator" />
> > <view name="success" path="tools/calculator.jsp">
> > <transform path="outerPageWrapper.jsp"/>
> > </view>
> > </command>
> >
> > tools/calculator.jsp:
> > <form blah blah>
> > ...other input...
> > <input
> > type="text"
> > name="term"
> > size="4"
> > maxlength="4"
> > value="<c:out value="${model.longTerm}"/>" />
> > ...submit...
> > </form>
> >
> > I must be doing something seriously wrong here, because when I call
> > 'calculator.m', the tools/calculator.jsp runs ok. I fill in a value for
> the
> > input field 'term', and click submit. The 'Menu' class appears to have
> it's
> > setters and it's perform() called fine. What doesn't seem to be
happening
> is
> > the call to setTerm(String value) within the Calculator controller.
> >
> > I iterated over the Request and get this:
> >
> > (iterating over the request parameters)
> > 12:48:23,579 INFO [STDOUT] [product] == [bnpl]
> > 12:48:23,579 INFO [STDOUT] [period] == [0]
> > 12:48:23,579 INFO [STDOUT] [amount] == [0]
> > 12:48:23,579 INFO [STDOUT] [action] == [obq]
> > 12:48:23,579 INFO [STDOUT] [deposit] == []
> > 12:48:23,589 INFO [STDOUT] [term] == [36] <<===
> > 12:48:23,589 INFO [STDOUT] [apr] == []
> >
> > (then called getAction() and getTerm() deliberately within perform()
> within
> > the Calculator class)
> > 12:48:23,579 INFO [STDOUT] action==[obq]
> > 12:48:23,579 INFO [STDOUT] term==[0.0] <<==
> >
> > So 'term' is being sent through. I'm stumped and feeling a tad dim. Can
> > anyone help?
> >
> > Ms Kimberley Scott
> > Senior Software Engineer
> > DCG Media Ltd
> >
> >
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