Hi Binesh,

Thanks for the reply. So you think that the f:convertDateTime is interfering with the behaviour of the field? Seams a bit weird that a built in converter is causing the field to revert back to it's original value. Could this be considered a bug?

Thanks,

Philip

BTW, I can't change the validation rule on the entity as the entity will be used by different systems that require different date patterns etc. i.e. I have to keep the yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss date pattern at the JSF level. Therefore I can't use your suggestion. If anyone else has any other solutions please post.

Hi Binesh,

Thanks for taking the time to test if this is working. Note that the original JSF snippet that I sent is wrapped within a a4j:repeat. Details follow of my set up.

Cheers,

Philip

Entity Class

@Entity
@Table(name = "event")
public class Event implements java.io.Serializable {
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.
.
}

Backing Bean

@Stateful
@Name("myAction")
@Scope(ScopeType.SESSION)
public class MyActionImpl implements MyAction {

  @PersistenceContext(type = PersistenceContextType.EXTENDED)
  private EntityManager entityManager;


  @DataModel("myAction_events")
  private List<Event> events;

  public void searchEvents() {
    entityManager.createQuery("SELECT e FROM Event e");
    events = (List<Event>) q.getResultList();
  }
}

JSF

<a4j:repeat value="#{myAction_events}" var="_event">

  <a4j:form>

    <s:decorate id="startTimeDecorate" template="edit.xhtml">
      <ui:define name="label">Start Time</ui:define>
      <h:inputText id="startTime" required="true" value="#{_event.startTime}">
        <f:convertDateTime pattern="yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss" timeZone="#{myAction.timeZone}" />
        <a4j:support event="onblur" reRender="startTimeDecorate"  bypassUpdates="true" ajaxSingle="true" />
      </h:inputText>
    </s:decorate>

    <a4j:commandButton id="updateEvent" value="Update Event" reRender="startTimeHeader" />

  </a4j:form>

</a4j:repeat>