That's what I was thinking, which made me very displeased because I felt that ConvertUtils should be able to do this formatting automagically.
Fortunately, ConvertUtils *is* automagical; we just weren't thinking about Converters correctly :) To go from String -> Date one uses a DateConverter, so of course to go from Date -> String one uses a StringConverter. Isn't symmetry great? It's funny neither of us realized this at first. Matt ----- Original Message ----- From: "Henri Yandell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jakarta Commons Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2003 1:19 AM Subject: Re: [BeanUtils] confused over usage of ConvertUtils > > I could be utterly wrong here, but I've always thought the Convert stuff > was String->Object, even though the API is convert(Class, Object);Object. > I think the second parameter is effectively a String for uses within > beanutils. > > For Object->String, you would basically want to be looking at a Formatter > library [java.text.Format, with DateFormat being obvious choices]. > > Dunno though, could be a lot going on I haven't looked at much in > BeanUtils. Still trying to understand the whole Locale section. > > Hen > > On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Sgarlata Matt wrote: > > > I'm sure this is a simple question, but I am quite confused. I am trying to > > do two things using ConvertUtils > > 1) Convert a String of the form "19 September 2003" to a Date > > 2) Convert a Date to a String of the form "19 September 2003" > > > > #1 (String -> Date) I can do no problem with my own custom Converter class. > > Does anyone know how to do #2 (Date -> String) automatically with > > ConvertUtils? > > > > Thanks! > > > > Matt > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
