Alternatively you can create a class to act as both a type converter and
type formatter. Just have the class implement Formatter<T>,
TypeConverter<T>, and register the class in
the DefaultFormatterFactory/DefaultTypeConverterFactory to have them use
the convert and format the date automatically .
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 2:31 AM, Janne Jalkanen <janne.jalka...@ecyrd.com>wrote:
>
> Date formatting is usually something that's done by the view component in
> a typical MVC model. I'm not sure that the Stripes ActionBean is the right
> place to solve this problem.
>
> What we usually do is that we take the Date object up and until the view
> layer, then format it with JSTL on our JSP pages, e.g.
>
> <f:formatDate value="${user.registrationDate}"/>
>
> If you find repeating yourself a lot, you could just create a special JSP
> tag for yourself. Or an EL function, if you're on a fairly recent spec
> level.
>
> /Janne
>
> On Nov 14, 2011, at 09:23 , ted_smith2...@comcast.net wrote:
>
> Hello:
>
> hi
> I am trying to create a custom date converter. but the the typeconverter
> api only allows one way, string -> date
> I need to use the custom class to convert date back to string with special
> logic for display.
> The two way special conversion would only apply to the specific Date field.
>
> Using @Validate(converter=class) only work one way, string -> date
> I was expecting to have the single converter class to handle both
> string -> date and date -> string, similar to other frameworks
> (I am actually converting from a different framework to stripes
> but stumbled on this issue, as the other framework has conversion method
> pair like convertToString and ConvertToObject.
>
> What should i do?
>
> Thanks in Advance.
>
>
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