Rich:Calendar any working sample?

[granite2009]

I have tried all the combinations for Rich:Calendar but no luck to pass the date to my backing bean. I have defined the backing field to be String, Date, HTMLCalendar without success. All other fields work OK.

I would like to see a working sample of Rich:Calendar and the backing bean.

This is my test code that is not working. Eventually I need this Calendar column to be in an ExtendedDataTable.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" standalone="yes" ?>
<jsp:root xmlns:jsp="http://java.sun.com/JSP/Page" version="2.0"
xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
xmlns:a4j="http://richfaces.org/a4j"
xmlns:rich="http://richfaces.org/rich">
<jsp:directive.page contentType="text/html;charset=utf-8" />
<f:view>
<a4j:form>
<rich:panel header="Test Date"
style="width: 925px">
<rich:calendar value="#{dateBean.testDate}"
datePattern="MM/dd/yyyy" ajaxSingle="true"
showApplyButton="false">
</rich:calendar>
</rich:panel>
</a4j:form>
</f:view>
</jsp:root>

[nbelaevski]

Hi,

Calendar is an input and doesn't do submits itself. Add a4j:commandLink that will do submits and try.

[granite2009]

Thanks. I got the single edit working.
I still cannot make Calendar works inside a table. How do I add a submit every time a row is changed? All I needs is passing a date field to my bean. Any other method, component, work around is OK.

Ling

[nbelaevski]

Ling,

Add a4j:support to rich:calendar for this.

[granite2009]

a4j:support did not work. This is the error I got in Tomcat. Any other suggestions?

Oct 26, 2009 10:14:09 AM com.sun.faces.lifecycle.RenderResponsePhase execute
INFO: WARNING: FacesMessage(s) have been enqueued, but may not have been displayed.
sourceId=j_id_jsp_485971654_1:table:0:sd[severity=(ERROR 2), summary=(j_id_jsp_485971654_1:table:0:sd: An error occurred when processing your submitted information.), detail=(j_id_jsp_485971654_1:table:0:sd: An error occurred when processing your submitted information.)]
sourceId=j_id_jsp_485971654_1:table:0:ed[severity=(ERROR 2), summary=(j_id_jsp_485971654_1:table:0:ed: An error occurred when processing your submitted information.), detail=(j_id_jsp_485971654_1:table:0:ed: An error occurred when processing your submitted information.)]

[nbelaevski]

You should fix these messages first.

[granite2009]

I kind of fixed this. It is a JPA issue. JPA only allow java.sql.Date but the Calendar only allow java.util.Date. I found that I need to add @Temporal to my Entity in order to make the type conversion work.
The only strange think is I cannot see my date value under debug using Eclipse. However, the value magically shows up in the Oracle DB. I am not complaining any more as long as it works before the scene.