Hi all
I'm a little new to Tapestry so I may be missing something, happy for anybody
to point me in
the right direction. I'm currently running Tapestry 4.0.2
I want to standardise my date format for the entire application to dd/MM/yyyy.
I decided that
the best place to do this while allowing for internationalisation is to add it
to my app.properties
file. I added a few other formats while I was there, so I had something like
the following:
# Generic formats
format_date=dd/MM/yyyy
format_time=HH:mm
format_pct0=##0%
format_pct2=##0.##%
format_currency=$#,###,##0.00
Then I found that in order to display a date in this format I was writing 7
lines of java code for
each page where a date was displayed (most of them)...along with 1 more line in
the .page
file for each date to be displayed.
When I wanted to edit a date again using this format I had 4 lines per page and
1 line per
field.
This only provides the most basic of editing (I haven't allowed for any error
processing yet)
and while the number of lines is not large it did seem to me that there were
different methods
being employed to format the date for display and others for edit and
validation.
As I began, I may have missed something but it does seem a little messy at the
moment.
Does anybody have a better method of achieving this generic formating?
Wouldn't it be nice if....I could specify formats in my message catalogue and
then simply
apply them to my components with a single line of code? eg
a) displaying a date value:
<component id="dateField" type="Insert">
<binding name="value" value="myclass.mydate"/>
<binding name="format" value="message:format_date"/>
</component>
b) editing a date value:
<component id="dateField" type="DatePicker">
<binding name="displayName" value="message:mydate_label"/>
<binding name="value" value="myclass.mydate"/>
<binding name="format" value="message:format_date"/>
<binding name="validators" value="validators:required"/>
</component>
Is this possible?
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