Hi,
I have this class called Money, a fixed-point representation and
arithmetic class for monetary amounts.
I want to display some Moneys in an <output> widget in a <repeater>.
Money has a toString() method.
Am I missing some obvious, built-in easy way to make this work?
What I did...
(1) Wrote dumb little class StringConvertor and StringConvertorBuilder
classes. This just calls toString() on the object. I added this in
the Cocoon source tree.
(2) Made a MoneyType and MoneyTypeBuilder (extending the abstract
classes in oacf.datatype.typeimpl). I did this in my application
source tree which is built separately from cocoon. To make this work,
I had to change visibility on some AbstractTypeBuilder methods from
protected to public.
(3) Finally, added my new datatype to cocoon.xconf.
It works fine.
But it feels wrong. It was kind of a pain in the rear for one thing.
Was there a better approach?
Cheers,
—ml—
