A comment was made a few days back that this dicussion (of DTOs vs ActionForms) comes up every two weeks. I think this is for 2 reaons. The first is that it is clearly the most confusing part of Struts. Second, I don't think there is a single definitive example of this yet. I believe that Matt Raible's appfuse is very close, yet it doesn't have an example of all the basic cases just yet. In short, it would be nice to see an example of a nested ActionForm using struts nested extension and a form which accepts a date input.
Another comment was that http://www.mycgiserver.com/~andrej/technical/struts/struts.jsp seemed like a nice solution. I agree and disagree. I agree because it definitely handles things how they should be handled but I disagree because it already exists, and it is BeanUtils.copyProperties. You can register any convertor you want with BeanUtils and therefore the framework is already in place. So onto my question. Matt, you mentioned that you only use UserFormEx (or an extended version of your String version of your DTO) when you have indexed properties, custom validation or the need for a reset() method. Would you agree you would also need one if you had a time input and a date input and you wanted to a get method which retrieved a datetime object? I would assume you would have two fields in the form, time and date, and then the get method on the ActionForm would combine these two to produce a parsable date which the convertor could handle. Does that make sense? Dan -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Daniel Allen, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.mojavelinux.com/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail. -- Gore Vidal - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
