Why are you guys continuing to advocate the use of a deprecated class?  Look
at the API!

Mark

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From: Gareth Andrew [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2003 1:59 PM
To: Struts Users Mailing List
Subject: Re: DateUtilities for ActionForms?


If you want to use Locale aware conversions perhaps you should be using 
LocaleBeanUtils rather than BeanUtils.  You should be able to convert a 
string to a date as follows:

java.util.Date myDate = (java.util.Date)LocaleConvertUtils.convert("18 
Jan 2003", Class.forName("java.util.Date"));

If you change your form-properties to strings, copyProperties() should 
automagically do the String->Date conversion for you - although I think 
it uses toString() for Date->String so you'd need to use the DateFormat 
class and some locale information you have about the user 
(request.getLocale()?) to reformat the string.

Gareth



Mick Knutson wrote:

> I looked at the javadocs, but I just can't seem to understand how to
> use that. I looked at the struts source, but that is never used there.
> Does anyone have a working example of this?
>
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>
> ---
> Thanks...
> Mick Knutson
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>> From: Gareth Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Reply-To: "Struts Users Mailing List" 
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> To: Struts Users Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Subject: Re: DateUtilities for ActionForms?
>> Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 18:23:27 +0100
>>
>> Mick,
>>
>> Have you tried using the BeanUtils converters. From the docs:
>>
>> *org.apache.commons.beanutils.locale.converters.DateLocaleConverter
>> *
>> Standard |LocaleConverter| <cid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> implementation that converts an incoming locale-sensitive String into 
>> a |java.util.Date| object, optionally using a default value or 
>> throwing a |ConversionException| 
>> <cid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> if a conversion error occurs.
>>
>> It sounds like it might help, but I haven't used it before so i can't
>> comment.  At the very least the source might be useful if you decide 
>> you need to write your own DateUtilities.
>>
>> HTH.
>>
>> Gareth.
>>
>> Mick Knutson wrote:
>>
>>> Is there already a set of DateUtilities for ActionForms?
>>> I am finding myself converting to and from Strings and also
>>> reformating my Dates to and from my DB.
>>>
>>> I am using EntityBeans and ValueObjects with my ActionForms, so to
>>> keep the types in synch, it seems I have to do serious conversion 
>>> all the time.
>>> Thanks in advance for the help.
>>>
>>> ---
>>> Thanks...
>>> Mick Knutson
>>> ---
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