1 Reply Latest reply on Nov 9, 2014 4:10 PM by tomhain

    Date Items in rich:pickList not converted

    tomhain
    tomhain Nov 8, 2014 5:11 PM

      I make use of the RichFaces component rich:pickList to provide a list of Date objects which can be selected

      When the data gets validated the JSF page shows a validation error: "Validation Error: Value is not valid". I know, the Date Object is somehow not converted. But I don't know why? First I tried setting the attribute dateConverter:

      converter="#{javax.faces.convert.DateTimeConverter}"

      This didn't work. Afterwards, I added the following statement:

      <f:convertDateTime pattern="MM/dd/yyyy" />

      Didn't solve the issue either.

      Btw: What is the difference of both ?

       

      Please find below the whole source code:

      XHTML

       

      !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" 
   xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html" 
   xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
   xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets" 
   xmlns:a4j="http://richfaces.org/a4j"
   xmlns:rich="http://richfaces.org/rich">

   <ui:composition template="/templates/template.xhtml">
        <ui:define name="body">
             <h:form prependId="false">
                  <rich:pickList id = "datePL" 
                       value="#{richBean.listOfNewDates}"  
                       sourceCaption="All Dates" 
                       targetCaption="New Dates">
                            <f:selectItems value="#{richBean.listOfDates}"
                                 var="_item" itemValue="#{_item}" itemLabel="#{_item}" />
                                 <f:convertDateTime pattern="MM/dd/yyyy" />
                  </rich:pickList>
                  <a4j:commandButton action="#{richBean.printListOfDates()}" value="Print"/>
                       <rich:notifyMessages stayTime="2000" nonblocking="true" />
             </h:form>
        </ui:define>
   </ui:composition>
</html>

       

      Managed Bean:

       

      import java.io.Serializable;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;
import javax.annotation.PostConstruct;
import javax.faces.bean.SessionScoped;
import javax.inject.Named;

@Named("richBean")
@SessionScoped
public class RichBean implements Serializable {

   private static final long serialVersionUID = -2403138958014741653L;
   private List<Date> listOfDates;
   private List<Date> listOfNewDates;

   @PostConstruct
   public void init() {
  setListOfDates(new ArrayList<Date>());
   Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
  getListOfDates().add(cal.getTime());
  cal.add(Calendar.DATE, 1);
  getListOfDates().add(cal.getTime());
  cal.add(Calendar.DATE, 2);
  getListOfDates().add(cal.getTime());
   }

   /**
  * @return the listOfDates
  */
   public List<Date> getListOfDates() {
   return listOfDates;
   }

   /**
  * @return the listOfNewDates
  */
   public List<Date> getListOfNewDates() {
   return listOfNewDates;
   }

   /**
  * @param listOfNewDates the listOfNewDates to set
  */
   public void setListOfNewDates(List<Date> listOfNewDates) {
   this.listOfNewDates = listOfNewDates;
   }

   public void printListOfDates() {
   for (Iterator<Date> it = listOfNewDates.iterator(); it.hasNext();) {
         System.out.println("Neues Datum = " + it.toString());
   }
   }

   /**
  * @param listOfDates the listOfDates to set
  */
   public void setListOfDates(List<Date> listOfDates) {
   this.listOfDates = listOfDates;
   }
}