Roland, I, too, was struggling with how best to transfer data between form-bean and entity (value) objects. Like you I found bean utils copyProperties problematic since it didn't do conversions.
Then I discovered Ted Husted's "Struts Catalog" (http://husted.com/about/scaffolding/catalog.htm), which has this bit of code in it: BeanUtils.populate(target,BeanUtils.describe(source)) ; This works better than copyProperties; however it doesn't work with optional types, like Date. Worth a read if nothing else. mark >From: "Roland Chan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Problem w/ ActionForm Value Object mapper by Andrej Consulting >Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 12:42:48 -0400 > >To prevent from doing the tedious task of manually copy properties from >value object to action forms and vice versa I looked to the the >ActionForm-Value Object mapper by Andrej Consulting >(http://www.mycgiserver.com/~andrej/technical/struts/struts.jsp) b/c it >had the benefit over the bean utils copyProperties method in that it >could do simple data type conversions. > >HOWEVER, I have run into a little bit of a snag and have yet to get a >response from Andrej. >Going from Form to VO is fine, however, I am experiencing problems with >VO to Form. It seems as though Integers are not being converted, and >there are frequent property copying to the wrong form properties. Has >anyone experienced this? > >Also, what is the best way to do a copy to form if the form already >exists? In the examples, Andrej uses this convention: > >form = VOToFormMapper.map(vo, new ExampleForm()); > >but in my experience, to get your form correctly populated it has to be >this: > >form = VOToFormMapper.map(vo, form); > >Any thoughts? I'm also open to alternatives. > >Thanks in advance. > > >-- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: ><mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >For additional commands, e-mail: ><mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
