Hello,

I came across a problem when passing a date type using f:param.

I have the following in my page:

<rich:column sortBy="#{_inc.incIgnore}">
     <f:facet name="header">Ignore</f:facet>                    
     <h:selectBooleanCheckbox value="#{_inc.incIgnore}" >
     <a:support event="onclick" action="#{incHome.toggleIgnore}" >
               <f:param name="pIncId" value="#{_inc.id.incId}"/>
                 <f:param name="pIncDate" value="#{_inc.id.incDate}" />
        </a:support>
     </h:selectBooleanCheckbox>
</rich:column>     

and the following in my incHome class:

Code:

@RequestParameter
String pIncId;
     
@RequestParameter
Date pIncDate;
     
public String toggleIgnore()
{
     if(pIncId==null || pIncDate==null) return "";
     String logDetail;
     // do something
}

In my pages-config.xml I have this

Code:

<converter>
  <converter-for-class>java.util.Date</converter-for-class>
  <converter-class>javax.faces.convert.DateTimeConverter</converter-class>
</converter>

The problem is that the pIncDate field doesn't seem to be passed back to incHome. It's always null.

I did notice this line in the log file though

[org.ajax4jsf.renderkit.AjaxRendererUtils] Build onclick string for component j_id388 as A4J.AJAX.Su
bmit('_viewRoot','incsChildren',event,{'status':'waitStatus','similarityGroupingId':'incsChildren:in
csTable:4:j_id388','parameters':{'pIncId':'125','pIncDate':{'date':8,'day':5,'hours':6,'minutes':26,
'month':4,'nanos':0,'seconds':43,'time':1241760403000,'timezoneOffset':-60,'year':109} ,'incsChildre
n:incsTable:4:j_id388':'incsChildren:incsTable:4:j_id388'} ,'actionUrl':'/TEST/IncEdit.seam'} )     

which, if I'm reading it correctly, suggests that the value is passed to the home component.

I did some googling and it seems that other people had the same problem, but I wasn't able to find a solution so far.

Does anyone know if there's a fix for this problem or a workaround? I'm really stuck with this issue and any help will be highly apreaciated.

I'm using richfaces 3.3.1GA with Seam 2.1.1 GA

Thanks.