From commons-user-return-12373-apmail-jakarta-commons-user-archive=jakarta.apache.org@jakarta.apache.org Thu Jun 09 16:09:47 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-jakarta-commons-user-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 82777 invoked from network); 9 Jun 2005 16:09:47 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (209.237.227.199) by minotaur.apache.org with SMTP; 9 Jun 2005 16:09:47 -0000 Received: (qmail 39837 invoked by uid 500); 9 Jun 2005 16:09:39 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-jakarta-commons-user-archive@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 39806 invoked by uid 500); 9 Jun 2005 16:09:39 -0000 Mailing-List: contact commons-user-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Help: List-Post: List-Id: "Jakarta Commons Users List" Reply-To: "Jakarta Commons Users List" Delivered-To: mailing list commons-user@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 39779 invoked by uid 99); 9 Jun 2005 16:09:38 -0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.0 required=10.0 tests=SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (hermes.apache.org: domain of gcjcu-commons-user@m.gmane.org designates 80.91.229.2 as permitted sender) Received: from main.gmane.org (HELO ciao.gmane.org) (80.91.229.2) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.28) with ESMTP; Thu, 09 Jun 2005 09:09:34 -0700 Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1DgOfq-0001Xz-Qi for commons-user@jakarta.apache.org; Thu, 09 Jun 2005 17:10:26 +0200 Received: from cpe00045ad20d9e-cm014480118460.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com ([65.49.43.75]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 09 Jun 2005 17:10:26 +0200 Received: from laurie by cpe00045ad20d9e-cm014480118460.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 09 Jun 2005 17:10:26 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: commons-user@jakarta.apache.org From: Laurie Harper Subject: Re: Converting properties to String Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 11:00:35 -0400 Lines: 12 Message-ID: References: <1118289566.3743.54.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cpe00045ad20d9e-cm014480118460.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (Macintosh/20040208) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <1118289566.3743.54.camel@localhost.localdomain> Sender: news X-Virus-Checked: Checked X-Spam-Rating: minotaur.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N Simon Kitching wrote: > ConvertUtils really isn't designed to handle custom mappings to string. > It is fundamemtally about mapping strings (from xml input, or from web > forms, etc) to objects. So I don't think there *is* an elegant solution > to your question within ConvertUtils. > > If you need a general type-conversion framework you might like to look > at http://morph.sourceforge.net/ Thanks Simon, I'll check that out. L. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: commons-user-unsubscribe@jakarta.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: commons-user-help@jakarta.apache.org