BigDecimal in DynaActionForm "" instead of null

[un...@thorstenschaefer.de]

Hi,

I have an DynaActionForm (using Struts 1) with several properties, all of type
String. My business object is typed; one of its properties is a BigDecimal. To
copy form data to the entity, I'm using BeanUtils.copyProperties. This works
well, but in case of BigDecimals, there is a conversion error because the form
returns an empty string instead of null. I tried to set the "convertNull"
parameter of the ActionServlet, but this didn't change the behavior. Now I have
a workaround (setting the form properties manually to null before using
BeanUtils), but I do not consider this the best solution. Is there a better
solution for this issue?

Cheers,

Thorsten


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Re: BigDecimal in DynaActionForm "" instead of null

[Martin Gainty <mg...@hotmail.com>]

Thorsten-

inside struts-config.xml you should see a xml configuration file identified from 'value' attribute for the plug-in for your ContextLoaderPlugIn class
  <plug-in className="org.springframework.web.struts.ContextLoaderPlugIn">
    <set-property property="contextConfigLocation"
      value="/WEB-INF/applicationContext-phys-web.xml classpath:/applicationContext-phys-service.xml"/>
  </plug-in>
edit the xml identified in the value attribute
search on lazy-init

  <bean id="syncMedRecWebServicesPortType"
    class="org.springframework.remoting.jaxrpc.JaxRpcPortProxyFactoryBean"
    lazy-init="true">

change to lazy-init="false" save and redeploy the webapp

Anyone else?

Viel Gluck!
Martin --
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From: <un...@thorstenschaefer.de>
To: <us...@struts.apache.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2007 6:32 AM
Subject: BigDecimal in DynaActionForm "" instead of null


> Hi,
> 
> I have an DynaActionForm (using Struts 1) with several properties, all of type
> String. My business object is typed; one of its properties is a BigDecimal. To
> copy form data to the entity, I'm using BeanUtils.copyProperties. This works
> well, but in case of BigDecimals, there is a conversion error because the form
> returns an empty string instead of null. I tried to set the "convertNull"
> parameter of the ActionServlet, but this didn't change the behavior. Now I have
> a workaround (setting the form properties manually to null before using
> BeanUtils), but I do not consider this the best solution. Is there a better
> solution for this issue?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Thorsten
> 
> 
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