Thanks, Andrew, it explains very well. Xuemin
----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 12:33 PM Subject: RE: Form's property, String or not? > For actionforms you should make them all strings. Certainly anything that > allows for text entry in the UI should be made a string even if it is > intended for numeric input. (For checkboxes and such like its less important > though Id still recommend using strings for them) > > This allows you to return the user to the form when validation fails with > the input they entered preserved - so if they type "One" instead of "1" the > bad value will be preserved for them to correct on return to the page. > > If they type text into a field whose actionform property is numeric you can > have problems handling it. I cant remember if it causes an exception or is > just converted implicitly to the value 0 - but either way its a problem... > > -----Original Message----- > From: Xuemin Guan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, 24 March 2004 11:30 > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: Form's property, String or not? > > > Hi, dear all, very new to Struts. Just a simple question: > > As a best practice of Struts, should I declare formebeans' > properties all as String, or the "actual" type (such as BigDecimal, > int, float, and double etc.) > > Thanks, > > Xuemin > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
