Value is not valid when using s:selectItems and h:selectOneMenu

[mail.micke]

Hi

I'm struggling with a simple dropdown menu which contains Date objects.

I'm getting Value is not valid validation error and I'm not quite sure how to get around this.

The backing List is a simple ArrayList<Date>.

And this is my XHTML code:

<h:selectOneMenu id="riskDateInput" value="#{sdb2.sdbParams.riskDate}">               
     <s:selectItems value="#{sdb2.riskDates}"
                         var="rd"
                         label="#{lcf:formatDateDash(rd)}"
                         itemValue="#{rd}"/>
     <s:convertDateTime/>
</h:selectOneMenu>
<h:commandButton value="Risk Date" action="#{sdb2.init()}"/>

The backign bean is PAGE scoped.

I've tried both <s:convertDateTime/> and <f:convertDateTime pattern="yyyy-MM-dd"/> with the same result.

Tried loads of alternatives, but keep getting this error.

Cheers,
Micke

[pmuir]

I would guess Date.equals() is returning false - can you check if this is the case? In which case, please file an issue in Seam JIRA and I can see if we can improve this.

[mail.micke]

Not sure where the equals methods are being called.

Is it in the <s:selectItems/> or in the <h:selectOneMenu/> component?

Pointer to where I should put a break point needed.

Thanks,
micke

[pmuir]

The validate() method on UISelectOne IIRC.

[mail.micke]

FYI

Problem was a user error, doh!

Turns out the the date is stored like this in the <option/> tag:

<option value="10-Sep-2008">2008-09-10</option>

So when the Date object was recreated it didn't have the right values for hour etc.

Adding type="both" to the <f:convertDateTime/> seems to have sorted the issue and the full date is put in the value attribute.

Cheers,
Micke