I think that what Jerome meant is "all accessed properties"....meaning if nested or even recursively nested, the same applies. the getXXX() and setXXX() should always be String.
James Mitchell > -----Original Message----- > From: Don Saxton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 10:49 PM > To: Struts Users Mailing List; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Use of custom convertors > > > 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]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
