Bind, PropertyEditor and Map

[kantorn]

After too many days sitting and trying in vain I'm now turning to the 'Wizards of Spring' with a hopeful mind.....

This is the situation:
I want to bind a DB-relation object in a form. Designed JavaBean style, nothing unusual.

public class Delegation implements Serializable, TernaryAssociation {

    private Event 				event;
    private Function			delegate;
    private Date 				until;
    private DelegationLevel		level;


	public Delegation(Event event, Function delegate, Date until, 
				DelegationLevel level) {
		this.event = event;
		this.delegate = delegate;
		this.until = until;
		this.level = level;
	}
	
                [standard setters/getter]
}

A couple of these are bound to form object

public class DelegationForm {

	private Function function; //The function of the current user
	private Map delegations; //All the delegation node objects per function in the system
	
	public DelegationForm(Function function){
		this.function = function;
	}
	
	public DelegationForm(){}
	
	public Function getFunction() { return (this.function); }
	public void setFunction(Function function) { this.function = function; }
	
	public Map getDelegations() { return (this.delegations); }
	public void setDelegations(Map delegations) { this.delegations = delegations; }			
}

Relevant JSP-code:

<c&#58;forEach var="functionnaire" items="$&#123;functionnaires&#125;">
<c&#58;set var="fid" value="$&#123;functionnaire.function.id&#125;"/>
<TR>
	<spring&#58;bind path="command.delegations&#91;$&#123;fid&#125;&#93;">
		<TD<b><c&#58;out value="$&#123;functionnaire.function.description&#125; $&#123;functionnaire.user.fname&#125; $&#123;functionnaire.user.lname&#125; "/></b></TD>
		<c&#58;forEach var="level" items="$&#123;levellist&#125;">	
			<TD><input  type="radio" name="<c&#58;out value="$&#123;status.expression&#125;"/>" 
						value="<c&#58;out value="$&#123;status.value&#125;"/>" 							
			></TD>
		</c&#58;forEach>
	</spring&#58;bind>
</TR>
</c&#58;forEach>

where 'functionnaires' is a list of objects containing a User and a Function, provided by controller function referenceData. 'command.delegations' is the form objects Map, which is preloaded with existing data from database.

What I cannot seem to accomplish is to get PropertyEditor

public class DelegationEditor extends PropertyEditorSupport {
	
	private LogicFacade logic;
	
	public static Category log = Category.getInstance(DelegationEditor.class.getName());
	
	public LogicFacade getLogic() { return (this.logic); }
	public void setLogic(LogicFacade logic) { this.logic = logic; }
  
	public void setAsText(String text) {
		log.debug("setAsText got: " +  text);
		Delegation status = null;
		if(text.trim().equals("") || text == null){
			this.setValue(null);
		}
		else{
			try{
				this.setValue(new Delegation(null, null, null, null));
			}catch(Exception e){
				
			}
		}
	}
	
	public String getAsText(Delegation status) throws Exception {

		log.debug("getAsText got: " +  status);
		if(status == null){
			return "Hejsan";
		}//if
		else{
			return status.getEvent().getId() + "@" + status.getDelegate().getId();
		}//else		
	}
}

to print out 'Hejsan' or the wanted string 'xxx@xxx'. Instead it somehow uses Delegation's internal toString()-function, resulting in

<TD><input  type="radio" name="delegations&#91;5&#93;" 						value="ks.rah.avik2.domain.Delegation@1644c9&#91;event&#58; =1,delegate&#58; =5,level&#58; =Inga rättigheter&#93;" ></TD>

despite the fact that

protected void initBinder(HttpServletRequest request, ServletRequestDataBinder binder) {
		super.initBinder(request,binder);
		binder.registerCustomEditor(Delegation.class, "delegations.*", delegEditor);
	}

is invoked in the DelegationFormController class.

In short: I don't see any PropertyEditor impact on my presented HTML-page.

What am I doing wrong in binding here? Is invoking the contents of a Map in a Command object with 'mapname[keystring]' not doable? Any tips and tricks?

Thanks in advance,