>It sounds to me like you are corrupting your model and introducing >ambiguity. Using Strings for Dates and Integers is a bad idea. We've >successfully dealt with those issues without corrupting our model. >That is the purpose of the ActionForm. It is a point in which you need >to convert your user input to your model. I think you are shortcutting >here and will regret it later on. This is not a good practice.
More I think about that, more I relise that, you have absolutely right about that. I also realise that, it goes a little beyond that group, and comes to the struts, but you went through it, > > > >nested bean. The other option is to write a different BeanUtils > > > >Converter implementation for numerics and register it > > > > > >(http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/beanutils/api/org/apache/commons/beanuti ls/ConvertUtils.html#register(org.apache.commons.beanutils.Converter,%20java .lang.Class). I found strutslive application, which shows something about this, but the example is more sophisticated, that I need now. The question is: What level should I register my Converter at? I looked into struts source, and I went to that: the request processor invokes method: populate which invokes RequestUtils.convert or populate, which goes to the ConvertUtils and so on What is the simpliest way to register my converter, that it should correspond to all actionForms. I want to do it above population of all actionForms, instead of doing it in all actionForm set/get method. What parts /objects should I implement on my own. (whole request processor, and how does it affect TilesRequestProcessor used by TilesPlugin) I realise that it is more about struts, but it came out from my topic:) Any hints would be appreciated Best regards Darek > >
