Number formatting in text input

[Jamie Williams]

I need to show numbers in an input text field on a form to 5 points of precision eg 0.25 must be shown as 0.25000
That's easy, but submitting them again and converting them to floats doesn't work, I get conversion errors. I thought I could get around the problem by having a get method that returns a string, and a set method that takes a float, eg.

Page:
...
<h:inputText id="newPrice" value="#{cr.newPrice}" required="true">
    <f:converter converterId="javax.faces.Float"/>
    <f:validateDoubleRange minimum="0" maximum="9.99999"/>
</h:inputText>
...
 
Bean:
...
public String getNewPrice()
{
    return priceFormatter.format(newPrice);
}
 
public void setNewPrice(float newPrice)
{
    this.newPrice = newPrice;
}
...

But this doesn't work. I get 'Conversion Error "newPrice": Error during model data update.' Can anyone help me?

[Bagwan Mehrat]

I wonder if f:convertNumber would do what you want. If not, then you can write a custom converter, a class that implements javax.faces.convert.Convert.