On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 08:10, Tim Larson wrote: > On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 12:41:36PM +0000, Joerg Heinicke wrote: > > I have a form where for legal and natural persons different widgets have to be > > presented. I implemented it using a union widget and storing the persontype on a > > field with datatype ineger, the value is bound to a bean. To make this value > > usable in the union's case widget it must be transformed into a string. So my > > form definition looks like the following: > > Btw, Do you have ideas on how we should lift the "string" type restriction?
Don't all field widgets already have a convertor whose sole purpose is to convert the field's internal datatype to/from a string for sending to the client? Why not reuse that convertor to get a string representation of the case widget's value?
