I'd think it'd just use the default toString(), but I could be (badly)
mistaken.
IMO you'd want to format it in the body of a wrapping <s:param> tag.
Dave
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Scott Williams
<scottfwilli...@yahoo.com>wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I am experiencing some unexpected behavior with the Struts2 <s:param> tag
> when using it with date values. When I try to use an <s:param> tag within
> <s:url> to pass a date argument, the date is not output in the
> DateFormat.SHORT format, resulting in a type conversion error on submission.
>
> For example, these struts tags:
>
> <s:url id="anchorUrl" namespace="/experiment" action="go" escapeAmp="true">
> <s:param name="inDate" value="inDate"/>
> </s:url>
> <s:a href="%{anchorUrl}" id="go">Click this here...</s:a>
>
> produce this output:
>
> <a id="go"
> href="/EXP/experiment/go.action?inDate=Thu+Apr+12+21%3A52%3A30+EDT+2012">Click
> this here...</a>
>
> With HTML escaping removed, the result is "Fri Apr 13 12:31:00 EDT 2012",
> a format that nests the time inside the date.
>
> Unsurprisingly, this is causing a type conversion error when submitted to
> the Action class. I'm perplexed -- could I be misunderstanding the tags'
> usage, and this the expected behavior? Or might this be a bug, perhaps?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Scott Williams
>
>
>
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