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Extending the formProperty with access to te rawValue

ronald_van_kuij — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 15:54:00 GMT

As requested by Tom I discuss here why I submitted http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/ACT-602, a request to ADD a getter and setter for the raw value of the formproperty.Toms first remark was that not all web-ui frameworks can use the java objects. I fully understand this and never said that it should

Re: Extending the formProperty with access to te rawValue

tombaeyens — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 07:34:41 GMT

never said that it should replace the getter and setter of the string typed value. It should be an addition.

That made me see at least a possibility that we can explore further:

Instead of Strings for the form property values, we could expose FormValue objects that contain these properties:
* Object getValue()
* String getTextValue()
* FormProperty getFormProperty() to get the type and other metadata related to the property

Does anyone else have thoughts around this?

Re: Extending the formProperty with access to te rawValue

frederikherema1 — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 07:41:09 GMT

Exposing the value as a FormValue pojo with string/raw value and meta-data accessors looks like a good solution to me. +1

Re: Extending the formProperty with access to te rawValue

tombaeyens — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 08:40:02 GMT

Ronald, voor ons is t ok om t zo te doen, maar het heeft geen hoge prioriteit. Dus als je t wil, zou jij hiervoor een patch kunnen maken en aan een jira hangen? Je mag em aan 5.4 hangen. Volgende maand kan ik dat nakijken en mergen op trunk als je wil. Aangezien t public API is en dat ook de impact op de huidige form handling ge-impacteerd kan zijn wil ik het zelf nakijken.

Re: Extending the formProperty with access to te rawValue

ronald_van_kuij — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 08:50:57 GMT

Ok, will make a patch… but are you sure to change it this fundamentally? I agree it is cleaner though

Re: Extending the formProperty with access to te rawValue

tombaeyens — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 07:33:57 GMT

yes i agree with this change. it's a good improvement. it's not fundamental. we can do it backwards compatible. we can just leave the existing methods and add the methods to expose the PropertyValue.

Re: Extending the formProperty with access to te rawValue

stroobat — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 10:47:38 GMT

Nice improvement !

Re: Extending the formProperty with access to te rawValue

njames — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 21:55:19 GMT

Hi,
Did this patch ever get done?
I have the same issue, in that I have some FormProperty variables that are of type date. I am building a REST Web service, sending these FormProperty values as XML. Unfortunately, their String representation from Activiti is *not* in the correct (ISO 8601) form for xsd:dateTime, so I have to parse them using a SimpleDateFormat, then allow JAXB to serialize them correctly. This would be *much* more efficient if I could find a way to access the underlying Date object.