properties other than basic wrappers

[Nathan Coast <na...@levelseas.com>]

Hi,

I guess this is directed at the commons-beanutils developers but I get the
impression that the struts / commmons developers are one and the same.  Is
there any work in progress to provide functionality for form-bean properties
with data types beyond the basic types / object wrappers?  having looked at
the code I guess the logical place for such code would be
org.apache.commons.beanutils.ConvertUtils.  I saw the following in the
struts 1.1 to-do list and wasn't sure if this was referring to the same
thing:

PropertyEditor Support. Add support for JavaBeans that include a
PropertyEditor class for conversion to and from the string representation
used in an HTML input field. This support should operate in a manner
consistent with the way that standard JSP tags do in JSP 1.2. 

If there's a need for someone to work on this then how do I go about getting
involved?

Cheers Nathan


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Re: properties other than basic wrappers

[ma...@tumbleweed.com]

There was a discussion on using the PropertyEditor mechanism on this list a
few months ago, and there were some significant concerns. You can review the
thread in the archive entitled "Struts 1.1 TODO List -- Event and Listener
Model", starting here:

http://www.mail-archive.com/cgi-bin/htsearch?config=struts-dev_jakarta_apach
e_org&restrict=&exclude=&words=PropertyEditor

I don't have any personal practical experience with PropertyEditors, but I
have to say that the content of this thread pretty much killed any interest
I might have had in building them into Struts.

--
Martin Cooper


----- Original Message -----
From: "Nathan Coast" <na...@levelseas.com>
To: "Struts-Dev (E-mail)" <st...@jakarta.apache.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 9:07 AM
Subject: properties other than basic wrappers


> Hi,
>
> I guess this is directed at the commons-beanutils developers but I get the
> impression that the struts / commmons developers are one and the same.  Is
> there any work in progress to provide functionality for form-bean
properties
> with data types beyond the basic types / object wrappers?  having looked
at
> the code I guess the logical place for such code would be
> org.apache.commons.beanutils.ConvertUtils.  I saw the following in the
> struts 1.1 to-do list and wasn't sure if this was referring to the same
> thing:
>
> PropertyEditor Support. Add support for JavaBeans that include a
> PropertyEditor class for conversion to and from the string representation
> used in an HTML input field. This support should operate in a manner
> consistent with the way that standard JSP tags do in JSP 1.2.
>
> If there's a need for someone to work on this then how do I go about
getting
> involved?
>
> Cheers Nathan
>
>
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