hi, thanks for the reply. If the design had this behavior intended then probably we cannot do any thing.... but in that case i would not agree with the design. I read the post linked below and also the bug... but still unable to understand the reason behind for such a design.
i think i will now have to redesign my application. thanks for all your help regards, ravi jimski wrote: > > Hi Ravi- > > I think the problem here is how the struts2 tags were implemented. As far > as I can see from the code base the type converter definition you're > referring to is used by the XWork API and not OGNL. The XWork api is used > by the Struts Tags which have the option to call the converter or not. In > the case of rendering content, the option chosen by the designers is not > to call the converter and call toString() instead. Check out this bug > report https://issues.apache.org/struts/browse/WW-2047 for more details. > > I asked a question about this: > (http://www.nabble.com/Struts-framework-design-question%3A-Type-Converters-and-Tags-to15019888.html) > > > ...and it seems like a community generated patch is probably the only way > forward at this point. I started looking into it, but my day job has been > way too busy to give me any time to actually code a patch. There's also a > question on my part as to whether or not the patch would even be accepted > given that 2.0.6 supported type conversion at render time and the core > struts2 dev team has explicitly chosen to remove this feature (as > mentioned by Don Brown in the referenced bug report). > > > ravi_eze wrote: >> >> hi, >> >> We have Action class with Employee Object with setters and getters. The >> Typeconverter was configured to be called when <EmployeeObject.empId> is >> called by the jsp page. We found that convertFromString of type converter >> is being called but convertToString is never called. Any idea why this is >> happening? The details are as follows: >> >> Type converter: >> public class LongConverter extends StrutsTypeConverter { >> public Object convertFromString(Map context, String[] values, Class >> toClass) { >> ... .... >> } >> public String convertToString(Map context, Object o) { >> ... .... >> } >> } >> >> in actionClass-conversion.properties located along with the class file in >> the same package: >> employee.empId=com.comp.util.converter.LongConverter >> >> After some debugging we found that we need to add a new file: >> Employee-conversion.properties in the same package of Employee class with >> entries: >> empId=com.comp.util.converter.LongConverter >> >> and only then the convertToString would be called. I think we should have >> only one conversion.prop file instead of 2. Any ideas why this is >> happening this way? or am i missing any thing? please help. >> >> cheers, >> ravi >> > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Type-converters%3A-convertToString-not-called-tp15034925p15203566.html Sent from the Struts - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
