Thanks Michael, i'll have a go at that and post again if i need further
assistance.
Philip
Michael Horwitz wrote:
Hi Philip,
On 3/1/07, *Philip Barlow* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
Hi,
I recently set up Appfuse 2.0M3 on my machine at home so i could play
around with it a bit. Coming from a Struts background i decided to
try
out Spring MVC and so i downloaded and ran the Spring MVC Basic
package.
All is working fine after following the excellent quickstart guide on
the appfuse site.
One problem i encountered when trying to develop the application
further
was how to handle date inputs. I have had problems with this in
Struts
before and ended up writing a conversion class to convert Dates in
String format to java.util.Date objects. I don't know if this is the
right approach to take and i would like to get opinions on this.
Basically what i am looking for is help on the best approaches for the
following:
1. Adding a date to a html form. (Previously i used a javaScript
calendar which worked fine)
Sounds about right. There are several options, the most popular seems
to be jscalendar: http://jscalendar.sf.net.
2. Validating the date using Commons Validator (validation.xml)
Dependends exactly what you want to validate. Required field or just
the format? Commons validator more than likely already has something
built in here.
3. Should the date be String or Date when it reaches the Controller
(Hope i'm using the correct term!)
Spring MVC should bind the date into the relevant field on the command
object for you. You will need to set up the binder on the controller
which involves overriding the initBinder() method (change the format
as appropriate, the registerCustomEditor method also accepts an
optional second parameter which limits the editor to a specific
property):
protected void initBinder(HttpServletRequest httpServletRequest,
ServletRequestDataBinder servletRequestDataBinder)
{
super.initBinder(httpServletRequest, servletRequestDataBinder);
servletRequestDataBinder.registerCustomEditor (Date.class, new
CustomDateEditor(new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"),true));
}
Mike.
4. Any resources, links or examples of the above.
Thanks in advance
Philip
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