In fact, Java Web Parts has such a filter: http://http://javawebparts.sourceforge.net/javadocs/javawebparts/filter/ParameterMungerFilter.html
And in fact, if you wanted to do it client-side, JWP can help there too: http://javawebparts.sourceforge.net/javadocs/javawebparts/taglib/jstags/FullTrimTag.html -- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Technologies http://www.omnytex.com AIM: fzammetti Yahoo: fzammetti MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, January 26, 2006 12:27 pm, Tamas Szabo said: > On 1/27/06, Frank W. Zammetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On 1/26/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > When struts takes the data from the request and populates your form, >> > does it automatically trim whitespace? I think this might be answered >> > from the particulars of HTML rather than struts. Perhaps the question >> > is really whether html trims whitespace before building the request. >> If >> > id doesn't, does struts? >> >> Nope, neither Struts nor your browser (HTML) trims whitespace on the >> data >> it submits. It really wouldn't be correct if either did because it >> would >> then not be an accurate representation of what was entered by the user >> (or >> transmitted by the client if its another machine). I mean, if someone >> enters " Hello " instead of "Hello", who's to say the first should >> be >> transformed to the second? You may have a use case that says those are >> two distinct values that you have to be able to differentiate. It might >> be nice if you could tell Struts (or the browser) to automatically trim >> all parameters, but as it is today, you cannot, you will have to write >> the >> code to do this, either on the client or the server. > > > You could probably define and register a Converter that does the trimming > for you. > Or you coud use a Filter. > > These apply if you want to handle it on hte server side... > > Tamas > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
