This is great. But what if you need to format a date that is a property of an object in a collection on the action?
ie On my flight search action I have a collection of FlightJourney objects which contain FlightFare objects which contain FlightLeg objects. I want to specify the format for a Date property on a FlightLeg object. I think that the only way to do this is to be able to pass some extra info to the Converter code directly from the tag. This also covers the common case where the same property needs to be displayed more than once on a page in different formats. For example, I need to display the "time" portion of my java.util.Date in a seperate place to the "date" portion. I should only have to have one property which, getFromDate(), which can be formatted as desired in the presentation. I think that rather than specifying a different Converter class for every different usage it would be much easier to "parametise" the converters so that they can be passed format information. ie <ww:property value="startDate" format="dd MMM yyyy"/> IMHO, the standard converters should be made more flexible rather than defining new ones for every case. Is there any way around this with the current converter framework? Can I solve my problem without resorting to making my domain objects contain the text formating code themselves??? John. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason Carreira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 4:10 PM Subject: RE: [OS-webwork] Type conversion Do we have docs on that? > -----Original Message----- > From: Patrick Lightbody [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 11:04 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [OS-webwork] Type conversion > > > You can convert to and from string very easily. Just register a type > converter for type Foo and that converter will be called for > conversion from > a string and conversion to a string. > > You can also convert on individual fields: > > MyAction-conversion.properties: > blah=com.blah.BlahConverter > > That will be used for field blah in the class MyAction. > > -Pat > > > >From: "John Patterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To: "Webwork" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: [OS-webwork] Type conversion > >Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 14:41:58 +0100 > > > >What is happening with the type conversion functionality? I > need to be > >able to override the conversion both to and from string easily. > >xwork-conversion.properties only allows me to specify one way. > > > >Is there any plans to allow you to configure a converter > seperatly for > >each > >property? For example, I have several dates which appear on > a page in > >different formats. It would be great to be able to specify > in xwork.xml > >the format to be used for each property. Or would this be > best handled in > >a tag lib (to presentation specific)? > > > >Maybe if the PropertyTag had a format attribute which was somehow > >passed to > >the TypeConverter... > > > ><ww:property value="startDate" format="dd MMM yyyy"/> > > > >...or something like that. > > > >John. > > _________________________________________________________________ > Instant message in style with MSN Messenger 6.0. Download it > now FREE! > http://msnmessenger-download.com > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > Opensymphony-webwork mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensymphony-webwork > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Opensymphony-webwork mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensymphony-webwork ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Opensymphony-webwork mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensymphony-webwork
