Bill,
I thought of that, and that's probably what I'll end up doing. I didn't
know if anyone knew of a way to wrap the text that gets printed in that text
box with a tag in some manner. I thought that would end up being much
cleaner - a nicer seperation of presentation and logic...
But that's not always possible without doing some acrobatic feat, so I'll
have to just go with the extra getters and setters.
Thanks for your input!
Becky
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From: Bill Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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To: Struts Users Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: formatting test in prepopulated form
Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 17:23:07 -0400
what about 2 getters and setters. one the deals in pig latin and one that
deals in english that has to translate on a get (maybe you don't need the
set).
bp
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Becky Moyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 5:20 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: formatting test in prepopulated form
>
>
> Hi all...
> Can't find anything about this anywhere, thought i'd ask...
>
> I am storing a piece of data in a special format. So, for
> a bizarre
> example, I store a name in pig latin in the database. When I
> display the
> name, I want it to show up formatted properly. Trouble is,
> this is in a
> form, and i want to format it inside a struts html:text box.
>
> So in the database I store the name as "onjhae ithsmae". I
> populate my form
> with the value name="onjhae ithsmae". I have a custom tag
> that if I do
> something like this....
> <mytags:format><bean:write name="myform"
> property="name"/></mytags:format>
>
> will print out "John Smith".
>
> Problem is when I want the user to be able to edit their name
> in a form, and
> I want to prepopulate the form, I end up with a dilemma. I
> want to keep the
> name in pig latin in my form, and only want to display it in
> English.
> They'll enter it in English, but I'll translate it back to
> pig latin in the
> validate method or the action. So if I already have
> <html:text name="myform" property="name"/>, how do I use my
> tag to format
> the text? I don't think I can even do
>
> <html:text name="myform" property="name">
> <mytags:format>
> <%=myform.getName()%>
> </mytags:format>
> </html:text>
>
>
> I'm using Struts 1.0. Is there a way to do this, or do I
> have to do all
> sorts of weird conversion back and forth???
>
> Any suggestions greatly appreciated.
> Thanks!!!
> Becky
>
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