SWF 2.0 dont recognize my PropertyEditorRegistrar

[dr_pompeii]

Dear Members

I am trying to reuse my PropertyEditorRegistrar and PropertyEditorSupport used with Spring MVC for SWF 2.0.x

Below all my code

@Component("controlprematriculapropertyeditorregistrar")
public class ControlPreMatriculaPropertyEditorRegistrar implements PropertyEditorRegistrar {
	
	private static final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(ControlPreMatriculaPropertyEditorRegistrar.class);

	public void registerCustomEditors(PropertyEditorRegistry registry) {
		
		SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
		dateFormat.setLenient(false);		
		registry.registerCustomEditor(Date.class, new CustomDateEditor(dateFormat, false));
		registry.registerCustomEditor(ControlPreMatricula.class, new ControlPreMatriculaPropertyEditorSupport());
		registry.registerCustomEditor(Local.class, new LocalPropertyEditorSupport());
		registry.registerCustomEditor(Curso.class, new CursoPropertyEditorSupport());
		registry.registerCustomEditor(TipoTurno.class, new TipoTurnoPropertyEditorSupport());
		registry.registerCustomEditor(Turno.class, new TurnoPropertyEditorSupport());

	}
}

where for example a PropertyEditorSupport has the follow structure

@Component("localpropertyeditorsupport")
public class LocalPropertyEditorSupport extends PropertyEditorSupport{

	private static final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(LocalPropertyEditorSupport.class);
	
	private LocalBoService localBoService;
	
	@Autowired
	@Qualifier("localbo")
	public void setLocalBoService(LocalBoService localBoService) {
		this.localBoService = localBoService;
	}
	
	public LocalPropertyEditorSupport() {		
		super();	
	}

	public void setAsText(String text) throws IllegalArgumentException {
		Integer idLocal = Integer.parseInt(text);
		try{
			Local local = this.localBoService.getLocalByIdLocal(idLocal);
			setValue(local);
		}
		catch(MyGlobalException mge){
		}
	}
	
}

Where such class is

@Table(name = "local")
public class Local implements Serializable {

	private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

	private Integer idLocal;

	private String estadoLocal;
	
	private String nombreLocal;
...

My Action class is the follow (FormAction) (BTW I got the same results if the bold part below I move it into a constructor)

@Component("controlprematriculaaction")
public class ControlPreMatriculaAction extends FormAction{

  ....

  @Override
  protected Object createFormObject(RequestContext context) throws Exception{
				
	logger.info("createFormObject");
		
	this.setValidator(this.controlPreMatriculaValidator);		    
        this.setPropertyEditorRegistrar(this.controlPreMatriculaPropertyEditorRegistrar);
	this.setFormObjectClass(ControlPreMatricula.class);
	this.setFormObjectName("controlPreMatriculaModel");
	this.setFormObjectScope(ScopeType.FLOW);
		
	ControlPreMatricula controlPreMatricula = 
		this.controlPreMatriculaBoService.crearControlPreMatricula();
	controlPreMatricula.setFechaControlPreMatricula(new Date());
					
	return controlPreMatricula;
}

Below the view state

<view-state id="generarcontrolprematricula" 
            view="generarcontrolprematricula" 
            model="controlPreMatriculaModel">
   <on-render>
	<evaluate expression="controlprematriculaaction.setupForm(flowRequestContext)" />
	<evaluate expression="controlprematriculaaction.getAllRelationCollection(flowRequestContext)" />
   </on-render>
	<transition on="next" to="controlprematriculacancelado" bind="true" validate="true"/>
	<transition on="cancel" to="controlprematriculacancelado" bind="false" validate="false"/>		
</view-state>

Same result if I use only

<evaluate expression="controlprematriculaaction.setupForm" />

The Web Form is

<form:form modelAttribute="controlPreMatriculaModel">		
     <table>
	<tr>
	<td><spring:message code="localSeleccion" text="No deberia aparecer" /></td>
	<td>
	<form:select path="local" id="listalocales" style="width: 300px" 
			  items="${listalocales}"  
                          itemValue="idLocal"
             		  itemLabel="nombreLocal" />
	</td>
	<td><form:errors path="local" class="error" /></td>
	</tr>

           .....
           
         <tr>
	 <td><spring:message code="fechaInicioDeseado"  /></td>
	 <td>												  
		<form:input path="fechaControlPreMatricula" size="45" readonly="readonly" />									
	</td>
	 <td><form:errors path="fechaControlPreMatricula" class="error" /></td>
	</tr>

About the date field always I got Wed Jul 06 00:00:00 COT 2011 format when the page is rendered.

Therefore is not detected the follow

SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
dateFormat.setLenient(false);		
registry.registerCustomEditor(Date.class, new CustomDateEditor(dateFormat, false));

BTW I use this same code for Spring MVC and work fine, I see the expected format when the jsp page is rendered, therefore is not mandatory use <fmt:formatDate tag

Other problem is when I do the submit event, I got for all my list or select tags or collections the follow error message typeMismatch on local, therefore my LocalPropertyEditorSupport are not working really, I wrote logger lines and always appear in my console/terminal, never I receive an error through there, (BTW even If I include logger lines in the catch scope, never appear when I execute the code, therefore none exception is thrown)


why work for Spring MVC and not for SWF 2.0.x ?

I have no ideas, please give me a hand

Thanks in advanced

[Marten Deinum]

The problem here is you are mixing and old and new approach... Spring Web Flow uses Converters and Formatters (as Spring MVC 3 does) and not property editors anymore to do conversion. So instead of a PropertyEditorRegistrar you need a ConversionService to configure converts (I suggest the binding and type conversion chapter in the spring web flow reference guide).

[dr_pompeii]

Hello Marten

Thanks a lot for the guidance.

I have already resolved this, I should write a tutorial on my Blog

is really interesting how these new features does the things easier and reduce good amount of code

Thank you