RE: Proposed feature: Bean property transformations

2001-06-05 Thread Anthony Martin
valid date). If I immediately converted and stored the value as Date, I'd never be able to repeat it to the browser as typed. Anthony -Original Message- From: Ted Husted [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 4:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Proposed feature

Re: Proposed feature: Bean property transformations

2001-06-05 Thread Ted Husted
I agree. The primary fields on an ActionForm must be Strings, ActionForms should not be used to store persistent data, and the beans used to store persistent data should use appropriate types. The peristent data beans should not have to worry about data conversions, and so that task should be

Re[2]: Proposed feature: Bean property transformations

2001-06-02 Thread Oleg V Alexeev
Hello Ted, Saturday, June 02, 2001, 1:30:00 AM, you wrote: TH> "Harris, Andrew S" wrote: >> A component would be able to hold a text value and a data value. The text >> value could hold the value entered by the user, prior to validation, then >> this could be played back to the user if validatio

Re: Proposed feature: Bean property transformations

2001-06-01 Thread Ted Husted
"Harris, Andrew S" wrote: > A component would be able to hold a text value and a data value. The text > value could hold the value entered by the user, prior to validation, then > this could be played back to the user if validation failed on that > component. If validation succeeded, the data valu

RE: Proposed feature: Bean property transformations

2001-06-01 Thread Harris, Andrew S
going to be as capable as a Swing GUI.) Andrew Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Ted Husted [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 01 June 2001 14:52 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Proposed feature: Bean property transformations What I'm missing is a comprehensive,

Re: Proposed feature: Bean property transformations

2001-06-01 Thread Ted Husted
What I'm missing is a comprehensive, general package for converting data types and formatting properties for presentation. Most of this functionality is available somewhere in java and javax space, but it's spread around. What would be most useful, I think, is a single, generic package that provi