It will convert fine, so long as you have both clever and kind users who never enter letters in a numeric field.
ActionForms are character buffers for the HTML elements. Once the data is collected and validated, then you should convert and/or transform it. But since HTML and HTTP are string based, so should your ActionForms be. -- Ted Husted, Husted dot Com, Fairport NY US -- Developing Java Web Applications with Struts -- Tel: +1 585 737-3463 -- Web: http://husted.com/about/services [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > Quick question: if I have a html:text element in a JSP, can I map it to form bean >variable of type int, expecting an automatic type conversion from String to int, or >must all form bean variables be of type String? > > Cheers, > > Kosh -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
