rich:calendar doesnt accept java.util.Calendar in 3.1.3

[shivdeepk]

Hi,

I have been trying to use java.util.Calendarwith rich:calendar but have had no success. JIRA issue RF-933 says this has been fixed in 3.1.3 and 3.2.0. I am using Seam 2.0.1 GA. Any help would be appreciated.

registration.xhtml:

<rich:calendar id="dob" value="#{person.dob}" popup="true" required="true" />

Person.java:

import java.util.Calendar;

@Entity
@Name("person")
@Table(schema="public")
public class Person extends Party {

 public Person() {}

 @Column(nullable=false)
 private Calendar dob;

 public Calendar getDob() {
 return dob;
 }

 public void setDob(Calendar dob) {
 this.dob = dob;
 }

 ......
 ......
 ......
}

Error Message:

/registration.xhtml @40,107 value="#{person.dob}": java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: argument type mismatch

Regards,
Shiv

[fabmars]

There are other topis about it, including one i opened 8 months ago when rich calendar was released. And despite all that was said, i can assure you: rich:calendar doesn't accept Calendar's.
Personnally I made a converter.

public class CalendarConverter implements Converter {

 public Object getAsObject(FacesContext context, UIComponent component, String value) {

Calendar cal = null;
if(!StringUtils.isEmpty(value)) {
 Locale locale = (Locale)((UICalendar)component).getLocale();
 String pattern = ((UICalendar)component).getDatePattern();
 DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat(pattern, locale);

 try {
 Date date = df.parse(value);
 cal = new GregorianCalendar();
 cal.setTime(date);
 }
 catch(ParseException e) {
 throw new ConverterException(e);
 }
}
return cal;
 }

 public String getAsString(FacesContext context, UIComponent component, Object value) {

String result = null;

if(value != null) {

 if(value instanceof String) {
 result = (String)value;
 }
 else {
 DateFormat df;
 if(component instanceof UICalendar) {
 Locale locale = (Locale)((UICalendar)component).getLocale();
 String pattern = ((UICalendar)component).getDatePattern();
 df = new SimpleDateFormat(pattern, locale);
 }
 else {
 Locale locale = context.getViewRoot().getLocale();
 df = DateFormat.getDateInstance(DateFormat.DEFAULT, locale);
 }

 Date date = ((Calendar)value).getTime();
 result = df.format(date);
 }
 }
return result;
 }

}

[shivdeepk]

Thanks for the code!