Actually I don't think that is sufficient. Consider an object which is a recursive tree.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jerome Jacobsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 10:25 AM Subject: RE: Use of custom convertors > The "best practice" for form beans is that all properties be Strings. Your > Action can do the conversion both ways. For the request it converts the > String to the type expected by the business object. For the response it > converts the business object's type to the String to be set on the form > bean. BeanUtils can be used by the Action to do both types of conversion. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 1:10 PM > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: Re: Use of custom convertors > > > > Ok I may be missing something as I am brand new to struts. Why would we not > want to use the same mechanism for "getting" properties as we do for > "setting" properties? Why wouldn't the framework determine the type of the > source and call the appropriate converter in order to create the > appropriate string representation for display? > > Thanks. > > Keith Nielsen > > > > > > Ted Husted > <husted@apach To: Struts Users Mailing List > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > e.org> cc: > Subject: Re: Use of custom > convertors > 05/28/2002 > 10:23 AM > Please > respond to > "Struts Users > Mailing List" > > > > > > > Personally, I'd do the conversions in the JavaBean and leave the tags > out of it. > > -- 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: > > > > I am writing custom converters which BeanUtils will use to do conversions > > from request data to form bean. It appears however that on the return > path > > that none of the tags actually use BeanUtils, and as such my converter is > > only used in one direction. Is my understanding of this correct? If so > how > > do I avoid having to rip apart my nested beans in order to get right > > conversions on the subsequent generation of the next page. > > > > Thanks. > > > > Keith > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: < > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > For additional commands, e-mail: < > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: < > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: < > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
