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From: "Gregor Rayman" <grayman@gmx.net>
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Subject: Re: Dates and Struts
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 14:01:20 +0200
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"Matt Raible" <matt_raible@yahoo.com> wrote:


> Is it true that Struts cannot handle a java.sql.Date or java.util.Date
> datatype?  I seem to get errors everytime I try to have one in my form.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Matt

No it cannot. Date is not so easy to parse since it is locale dependent.
Also the displaying a date is not easy.

This brings me to one general architecture question:

Where do you (I mean all struts users) put the formatting/parsing�of
values?

For display only data, I try to put it into the JSP (with custom tags).

But what about the editable data? Is the ActionForm the right place?

I store the data in non-string form (like Date) and the get/set methods
operate with strings. The language dependent formats use an addiotional
property "locale" which I set either in the reset() method (from request
and session).

It could be done simpler, I used only string aware ActionForms and the
whole formatting were done in Action.perform, but this wouldn't be conform
with the MVC pattern, woul'd it?

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gR