On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 10:17:17 -0500, David Suarez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I've been through the same recently with dates formatting. Sounds like > we did exactly the same thing, seen on the web where others have also > done the same. Do you remember the reasoning for not handling it within > struts? I wanted to see if maybe there was a good reason for this that > I may be missing or is it just that no one has gotten around to doing > the full i18n features within struts/commons. If it's the latter, maybe > it'll be worth it for someone to take it on? From my last email it > sounded like the process is for a person to take it on themselves and > donate it which is presently not possible for me to do. Would anyone > else on this list have the time to do something like this? >
Part of the challenge of solving this problem with Struts and the current Commons packages is that the conversions you need to do are Locale sensitive, but there's no easy way with the current APIs to pass in the Locale object to the converter instance. [BeanUtils] has a Locale sensitive version of the conversion utilities, but it would break backwards compatibility for Struts to switch directly to that -- it would require a bunch of work to enable a backwards-compatible mode that uses the existing converters. And a bunch of this work would be in the HTML tag libraries, which none of the maintainers are much interested in at the moment. As for myself, i18n is one of many reasons that I like using JSF components instead of Struts HTML tags for my user interface. Locale-specific conversion is one of a bunch of benefits. > Figured I'd hope for the best. > > Regards...djsuarez > Craig --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
