There was a discussion on using the PropertyEditor mechanism on this list a few months ago, and there were some significant concerns. You can review the thread in the archive entitled "Struts 1.1 TODO List -- Event and Listener Model", starting here:
http://www.mail-archive.com/cgi-bin/htsearch?config=struts-dev_jakarta_apach e_org&restrict=&exclude=&words=PropertyEditor I don't have any personal practical experience with PropertyEditors, but I have to say that the content of this thread pretty much killed any interest I might have had in building them into Struts. -- Martin Cooper ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nathan Coast" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Struts-Dev (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 9:07 AM Subject: properties other than basic wrappers > Hi, > > I guess this is directed at the commons-beanutils developers but I get the > impression that the struts / commmons developers are one and the same. Is > there any work in progress to provide functionality for form-bean properties > with data types beyond the basic types / object wrappers? having looked at > the code I guess the logical place for such code would be > org.apache.commons.beanutils.ConvertUtils. I saw the following in the > struts 1.1 to-do list and wasn't sure if this was referring to the same > thing: > > PropertyEditor Support. Add support for JavaBeans that include a > PropertyEditor class for conversion to and from the string representation > used in an HTML input field. This support should operate in a manner > consistent with the way that standard JSP tags do in JSP 1.2. > > If there's a need for someone to work on this then how do I go about getting > involved? > > Cheers Nathan > > > ********************************************************************** > This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and > intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they > are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify > the system manager. > > This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by > MIMEsweeper at LevelSeas for the presence of computer viruses. > > www.mimesweeper.com > **********************************************************************
