Stripping Whitespace from a Command's fields

[Stefan Arentz]

What is the proper way of stripping leading and trailing white space from fields in a command? Right now i do a command.setBlah(command.getBlah().trim()) on every field in onBind but that doesn't look like the correct way.

Is there a 'Spring Approved' method for this?

S.

[keller]

How about placing it in the setter?

public class Monkey {
  private String name;

  public void setName(String name) {
    this.name = name.trim();
  }
}

[gmatthews]

org.springframework.beans.propertyeditors.StringTr immerEditor, but you have to register it.

empty strings get converted into null in the underlying command object.