PropertyEditors arent' called when *rendering* jsps.

[Colin Yates]

Hi all,

When I register a propertyEditor, it is only ever called when binding, i.e. when converting request parameters to Objects. It never seems to be called when rendering the jsp.

This is as I would expect because it gives me the most flexibility. Pain for dates because you have to have the formatting in two places.

Anyways, a couple of other posters seem to think that property editors *are* called when rendering jsps.

Can someone from the spring team please put my mind at ease before I go insane and question reality Are propertyEditors called when *rendering* jsps.

Ta.

Col

[Colin Yates]

OK, seems I *have* been a bit of a plonker

It appears getAsText *is* called when rendering when used within spring:bind . I think I got horribly confused because property editors are only called within spring:bind tags, not just in "normal" jstl.

Doh!

Apologies to all posters that had to put up with me ranting that propertyEditors were *not* called on rendering

[duardor]

Hi yatesco,

I´m using a MultiActionController... I´ve put a command in the ModelAndView, but I´m having problems with rendering Date´s.. It seems the PropertyEditor is not used at the jsp... Looking the code for the BindTag I´ve noted that a BindStatus only receives a PropertyEditor when there are erros... I´m missing something???

Thank you so much!

[matid]

Yatesco,

i'm desperatly trying to have some propertyEditor called when rendering when used within spring:bind. how did you register your propertyEditor (i tried to simply register it to the binder object in overriding method of initBinder of SimlpeFormController, but with no success)?

thanks,
Mati.

[Colin Yates]

Try overriding

SimpleFormController.initBinder(HttpServletRequest request,
                          ServletRequestDataBinder binder);

actually the method is in BaseCommandController but I assume you are using SFC

You will basically want to call one of the

registerCustomEditor

methods (check the javadoc for more info.) on the binder.

HTH

[matid]

Thanks a lot for your quick reply.
Actually i had already done exactly what you are suggesting (see my previous post).
Maybe i'll be more specific - i have a map(representing the application configuration parameters) whose keys type is of my own enum type. The map values are just of type object. I want to have a form representing this map.
As for my form command object, i'm using some MapCommand object that holds the original map

public class MapCommand {

    private Map map;

    public void setMap(Map map) {
        this.map = map;
    }

    public Map getMap() {
        return this.map;
    }
}

The map keys are of type ConfigParam -

public enum ConfigParameter {

    activeAlertsExpirationDays(7);

    private Object defaultValue;

    private ConfigParameter(Object defaultValue) {
        this.defaultValue = defaultValue;
    }
    public Object getDefaultValue() {
        return defaultValue;
    }

in my jsp form i want to use something like this...

<spring:bind path="command.map['activeAlertsExpirationDays']">

...but it doesn't work
Is there a way to use spring BindTag for binding form fields to map-entries whose keys are not strings?

[Colin Yates]

Ah, that I am not sure off I imagine you could do something like this, but I am not sure:

  <spring:bind path="command.map[${myObj}]">

but I am just guessing.

Sorry