[Webwork-devel] Handling dates in webwork

[Patrick L. <pli...@ho...>]

Can someone tell me how/if date handling is possible like so:

public FooAction extends ActionSupport {
 public Date getSomeDate() { .. }
 public void setSomeDate(Date someDate) { ... }

 ...
}

Now I want the date input to be done by using an HTML textfield that uses
the format "MM/dd/yyyy". How can I get this string to be automatically
converted to a date on input, but also automatically converted back to a
string on output/error? Last time I brought this up, setAsText worked great,
but getAsText was non-functional. I was told that there were other ways
around this (Rickard I believe told me), but then I think the resolution was
that the best way to do this was to actually use String as the property
value and convert it inside the action. Seems rather ugly to me... Any way
that i18n can help here?

-Pat