c:out and property editors

[TerpInMD]

Hi,

How do I use my property editors that I registered in my controller on fields that are not bound in form tags?

For example this works (ie picks up the custom date):

<form:input path="myDate"/>

but this does not work:

<C:out value="${command.myDate}"/>

Thanks,

[mrcritical]

Behind the scenes a form bind tag uses a BeanWrapper to get the value. A BeanWrapper uses PropertyEditors. So that is why directly accessing the object off the command object will not give you the string you want.

Since I no very little about JSP, I am not sure how you would use BeanWrapper in JSP to convert the value to a string for output. Perhaps someone else can hep with that.

[TerpInMD]

Thanks,

There has to be a tag or something for this already built.

[jglynn]

Unfortunately, there isn't one that I'm aware of.

You could use the spring:bind tag to achieve this.

<spring:bind path="command.myDate"><c:out value="${status.value}"/></spring:bind>

Or you could write a simple taglib to do this for you.

[TerpInMD]

The spring:bind doesnt help thou because I dont want to bind data to a control...I just want to spit it out as text. Thanks for the reply though.

[Rossen Stoyanchev]

You could use the transform tag :

<spring:bind path="command.date">
	<spring:transform value="${anyDate}" />
</spring:bind>

where "anyDate" is any available attribute.

[TerpInMD]

You could use the transform tag :

<spring:bind path="command.date">
	<spring:transform value="${anyDate}" />
</spring:bind>

where "anyDate" is any available attribute.

Worked like a charm, thank you sir!