RE: Problem with bean:define? Issue with Date fields

["Siggelkow, Bill" <bi...@mirant.com>]

Well ... if you have been following this thread I thought I had a problem
with the 'define' tag ... actually my problem was not with the define tag.

The problem was I did not include a 'hidden' field to hold a date property
in my form bean.

Once I did this I was able to use the define as I originally intended.

It was a slight inconvenience to realize that I had to provide a special
'get/setDateAsString' type methods to hold the render/transform the date
value.

It would be nice if in the future, the Struts tags supported some automatic
conversion of Date objects.

-----Original Message-----
From: Siggelkow, Bill [mailto:bill.siggelkow@mirant.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 9:56 AM
To: 'Struts Users Mailing List'
Subject: RE: Problem with bean:define?


Yes that is what I am saying ... I am not sure if the bean:write works ...

(Since I found the problem I was able to find a work-around as noted in a
previous post.)
-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Bacon [mailto:keithbaconstruts@yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 7:15 AM
To: Struts Users Mailing List
Subject: RE: Problem with bean:define?


are you saying your jsp is getting null pointer excp
in setAttribute() in the <bean:define tag?

does this work?
<bean:write name="editRegForm" property="postDate" />


Keith. (not much use I suspect - try my best!).

--- "Siggelkow, Bill" <bi...@mirant.com>
wrote:
> Specifically, I am trying to use the define tag to
> define a variable based
> on a property of the FormBean as follows: (the
> getLocalDate is my own tag
> for rendering dates.
> 
> <bean:define id="postDate" name="editRegForm"
> property="postDate"
> type="java.util.Date"/>
> <mir:getLocalDate date="<%=postDate%>"
> style="long"/>
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Siggelkow, Bill
> [mailto:bill.siggelkow@mirant.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 11:33 AM
> To: 'struts-user@jakarta.apache.org'
> Subject: Problem with bean:define?
> 
> 
> I am using the bean:define tag to make a variable
> available ... he's the
> wierd part ... it works the "first time" I enter the
> form ... but if I
> return to the form because of a validation error ...
> it fails with a
> NullPointerException in the pageContext.setAttribute
> method ... it seems to
> me the second time around it is not finding the
> value for some reason ...
> any ideas?
> 
> Bill Siggelkow
> eBusiness Lead Developer
> 678.579.6458
> Mirant
> http://www.mirant.com
> 
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