Chris, that makes perfect sense. So instead of relying on the person sending data to the object to clean the extra whitespace, it will always be trimmed at the object level.
Thanks for the suggestion. On Aug 9, 3:22 pm, Chris Peterson <[email protected]> wrote: > I would put the trimming inside your setFoo method on your model object > instead, that way regardless of where its coming from, it will always get > trimmed. > > ie: Rather than call user.setName( trim( form.name ) ), just call > user.setName( form.name ), then within the setName method, trim it before it > gets set internally, or before it gets persisted to your database. > > Chris Peterson > > On 8/9/10 3:17 PM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I've been building MG apps for the last year or two and really love > > the framework. But there's a nagging question that has always bugged > > me, form field trimming (to remove white space). Currently, when I > > process a form submission, I create a new object (let's take a product > > order as an example) and individually call the the setter methods, > > passing in the trimmed form value like this: <cfset > > ProductOrder.setProductName(trim(arguments.event.getValue("productName"))) / > >> . > > > This works great, but can be quite tedious if I have a form with a lot > > of values. Last night I discovered the MakeEventBean method (only took > > me 2 years to find it) and thought that this would be perfect for > > speeding up my development process. However, after digging through the > > source code, I realize that it is not trimming the values. Does anyone > > have a good way that they handle this type of situation? Where are you > > trimming your values? > > > Thanks for any insight. > > > Dean -- Model-Glue Sites: Home Page: http://www.model-glue.com Documentation: http://docs.model-glue.com Bug Tracker: http://bugs.model-glue.com Blog: http://www.model-glue.com/blog You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "model-glue" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/model-glue?hl=en
