Thanks a lot! I no doubt will find that very useful.
I have another question for the group at large:
I am now using the same form successfully for adds and updates. I am using the Validator plugin for validation, which I find to be pretty awesome. The problem I face though is, the fields I need to validate are slightly different between add and update conditions.
For example, when I add, there is a "disclaimer" checkbox that *must* be checked. When I update, there is no longer any checkbox. I am trying to share the <form> element in validation.xml, obviously, because the form itself is (almost) the same. So the problem is that sometimes I need "required", and sometimes not, for this checkbox field.
Because of one or two fields being different between add and update forms, I fear I'll have to do a nearly-redundant (and very long) <form> element for my update condition in validation.xml. Does anyone have a better solution?
Thanks, Erik
Rick Reumann wrote:
On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 12:22:11 -0400, Erik Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Using BeanUtils.copyProperties(), it's a piece of cake to update your Form bean from the ValueObject properties.
Do you have an example of this, or is there one on your site? I indeed have some properties that are the same between form bean and VO, but some are not (for example my form beans use only Strings, but my VOs use some booleans, ints, etc.)
Sorry was busy so unable to keep up with this thread.
No, the types can all be different. BeanUtils will convert them for you, so your formBean can have all Strings (some would argue it should only be all Strings anyway) and your VO obviously will have different types. To copy the properties from your VO to your form bean it's as simple as:
import org.apache.commons.beanutils.BeanUtils;
BeanUtils.copyProperties(youFormBean, yourVO);
If you are dealing with java.util.Dates you'll have one other thing to do (register a converter for your app) but I can explain that more if you need to go that route.
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