Can we see your related files? On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Scott Koenig <scott.l.koe...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hello, > > In my company's internal CMS, we are implementing two new asset types, > Videos and Playlists (collections of Videos). In the Video UI, the user > designates which Playlists are to be associated with a given Video, and > these values are posted on save via an array called "playlists" which > contains the UIDs of each Playlist. These are represented as an > ArrayList<Playlist> in the Video POJO. > > We have implemented a PlaylistConverter to convert each String UID to a > Playlist instance (and back), and going off of > > http://struts.apache.org/2.1.8/docs/type-conversion.html#TypeConversion-CollectionandMapSupport > , > added Element_playlists=[converterpackage].PlaylistConverter to > Video-conversion.properties. > > Save was not committing and there seemed to be some conversion error, so I > stepped through the conversion process to try and determine what was going > wrong. Everything seems to be fine at the Collection level; it properly > determines that the toType of the collection is List and the memberType is > Playlist. However, when XWorkConverter.getConverter() tries to find the > converter for the individual members, even though Element_playlists=class > [converterpackage].PlaylistConverter is present in the mappings, the > property String passed in is still "playlists" instead of > "Element_playlists" and thus it does not hook up the playlist ID with the > converter and falls back to the default converter (which cannot handle it > and is what is raising the error). > > Any guidance as to what could be going wrong here would be greatly > appreciated. > > Thank you very much, > ~~Scott > > > PS--If it's useful, our system depends on the following libraries: > > ognl-3.0.jar > struts2-core-2.1.8.1.jar > xwork-core-2.1.6.jar >
