You wouldn't happen to have another setter method that accepts a different
type (e.g. Date) would you?
for example:
...
...
public void setExpirationDate(Date expirationDate){
...
...
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James Mitchell
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From: "Slattery, Tim - BLS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 3:39 PM
Subject: Date format woes
> I've got a page in my Struts web app that displays a date. It uses
> <fmt:formatDate...> to read a date from the form bean and format it for
> display. I also want to put that date into a <html:hidden...> field so
that
> it can be reloaded when the page is submitted and redisplayed.
>
> The getter returns a Date. The <fmt:formatDate tag gets this and converts
it
> to the "default" format (Sep 9, 2005). No problem there. The
> <html:hidden...> tag retrieves also retrieves it and converts it to this:
> 2005-09-09.
>
> The getter returns a Date, the setter takes a String and converts it to a
> Date. Or it tries to. I've put debug print into the setter, and it
> apparently is not getting called at all! What's going on?
>
> The app is running in Jboss 3.2.5
>
> Here are my getter and setter pair:
>
> /** setter for expirationDate
> @param String new value for expirationDate
> */
> public void setExpirationDate(String expirationDate)
> {
> System.out.println("New date: " + expirationDate);
> try
> {
> SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
> this.expirationDate = sdf.parse(expirationDate);
> }
> catch (ParseException ex)
> {
> System.out.println("format failed: " + ex.getMessage());
> this.expirationDate = null;
> }
> }
>
> /** getter for expirationDate
> @return Date value of expirationDate
> */
> public Date getExpirationDate()
> {
> return expirationDate;
> }
>
> Here are the tags from the jsp page:
>
> <strong>Expiration Date: </strong><fmt:formatDate
> dateStyle="default"
> value="${UpdPending.expirationDate}"/><BR>
> <html-el:hidden property="expirationDate"/>
>
>
> --
> Tim Slattery
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