[#STS-455] Allow adding TypeConverters and Formatters without extending TypeConverterFactory or FormatterFactory - Stripes

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Type: Improvement
Status: Closed
Priority: Major
Resolution: Fixed
Affects Version/s: None
Fix Version/s: Release 1.5
Component/s: None
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TypeConverters and Formatters should be able to be configured in web.xml. Since both interfaces take a generic type parameter, Stripes should be able to use that type parameter to register the converter or formatter with the default implementations of TypeConverterFactory and FormatterFactory.

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Iwao AVE! added a comment - 10/Dec/07 9:06 PM

I have been considering this for a while.
Can't we use annotation for that?
For example:

@TypeConverterFor(Date.class)
public class MyDateTypeConverter implements TypeConverter

{...}

@FormatterFor(MyOrder.class)
public class MyOrderFormatter implements Formatter{...}

This might be a topic which should be explained on the wiki if it can be achieved by extending the default factories.
Just an idea...

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Iwao AVE! added a comment - 10/Dec/07 9:06 PM I have been considering this for a while. Can't we use annotation for that? For example: @TypeConverterFor(Date.class) public class MyDateTypeConverter implements TypeConverter {...} @FormatterFor(MyOrder.class) public class MyOrderFormatter implements Formatter{...} This might be a topic which should be explained on the wiki if it can be achieved by extending the default factories. Just an idea...

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Tim Fennell added a comment - 21/Dec/07 12:06 PM

We took a slightly different tack on this one. There's a new public method on the TypeConverterFactory and FormatterFactory interfaces called add() that allows user-space code to add new converters and formatters directly. This could be called from a ServletContextListener or base ActionBean.

Also, see ~~STS-436~~ for a more generic way to automatically find and use lots of "stripes extensions" kind of classes.

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Tim Fennell added a comment - 21/Dec/07 12:06 PM We took a slightly different tack on this one. There's a new public method on the TypeConverterFactory and FormatterFactory interfaces called add() that allows user-space code to add new converters and formatters directly. This could be called from a ServletContextListener or base ActionBean. Also, see ~~STS-436~~ for a more generic way to automatically find and use lots of "stripes extensions" kind of classes.

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Ben Gunter

Reporter:

Ben Gunter

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Created:

10/Dec/07 7:35 PM

Updated:

04/Jan/11 3:10 PM

Resolved:

21/Dec/07 12:06 PM