[CLK-612] Better user experience with DateField (and CalendarField).

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 2.1.0, 2.1.0 RC1
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Andrew Fink
• Created: 17/Jan/10 13:13
• Updated: 23/Jan/10 17:32

Description

Current DateField.validate() is too strict.

My suggestion is:

Add two properties:
1) String prop similarDelimiters:

its format: [oldChar1][newChar1] [oldChar2][newChar2].... if odd then ignore last char.

2) boolean prop lenientValidation //def false

3) Modify setValue (not tested):

public void setValue(String value) {
if (value != null && value.length() > 0) {
value = value.trim();

if (similarDelimiters != null && similarDelimiters.length > 0) {
for (int i=0; i<similarDelimiters.length-1; i+=2)

{ value = value.replace(similarDelimiters.charAt(i), similarDelimiters.charAt(i+1)); }

//f
}//i

try

{ Date parsedDate = getDateFormat().parse(value); // Cache date for subsequent retrievals date = new Date(parsedDate.getTime()); }

catch (ParseException pe)

{ date = null; }

} else

{ date = null; }

super.setValue(value);
}//setValue

Because people in Russia use different characters (ex: /,-, .(dot)) as date delimiters, not one.

So I will set similarDelimiters to "-/
/./" and pattern to dd/MM/yyyy - and it will work.

4) Modify validate()
dateFormat.setLenient(lenientValidation);