I would still have to format the number in the bean for Form, and localize dates (for the Candian dates), etc in the bean class. If the page is read only, I would format in JSP. So far getAge() and getAgeInt() look ok. I wonder which way the faces tag will work.
(yes, if know, if I copied data for the form bean .... but if I have nested and multi row and many to many, it's kind of a pain; one day I will write reflection with dynaRowSet to clone nesting, localize, format and put in basicPortal)
.V
Martin Cooper wrote:
"Vic Cekvenich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message b2t728$t7c$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:b2t728$t7c$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...I have been nudging people toiwards JSTL. A nice feature is FMT tag that formats the number, date, etc. in the JSP. FMT tag needs the formBeans to return int!No, it does not. If you provide a string to the format tags, such as <fmt:formatNumber>, it will convert it to the appropriate numeric type. Try the following: ----- cut here ----- <%@ taglib prefix="fmt" uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/fmt"; %> <% request.setAttribute("foo", "1234567890"); %> <fmt:formatNumber value="${foo}" type="currency"/> ----- cut here ----- To avoid any question of what other JSTL tags might be doing, I've explicitly stored a string in a request attribute. The output from the above page is: $1,234,567,890.00 The <fmt:formatNumber> tag did its job just fine when passed a string instead of an integer. -- Martin CooperSo if one does a FORM for updates you create formbean with String getAge(), and number formated in Java before returning the String. If then you just want to display the # (no update) you need to create a bean with int getAge(), and FMT it in JSP. So return int for JSTL and String for formBean. A prefered solution is that HTML tag is able to do formating like FMT tag. .V Also, it be nice if tiles was able to do some EL, or have a nicer way of FORWARDING to diferent JSP from the tile action one day.
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