[TAPESTRY-1105] DropdownDatePicker.java uses wrong format to pass date value to DoJo

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 4.1.1
• Fix Version/s: 4.1.1
• Component/s: JavaScript, tapestry-core
• Assignee: Jesse Kuhnert
• Reporter: Greg Woolsey
• Created: 02/Oct/06 19:17
• Updated: 09/Oct/06 04:42
• Resolved: 09/Oct/06 04:42

Description

Line 85 of DropdownDatePicker.java:

json.put("date", getTranslatedFieldSupport().format(this, getValue()));

however, this generates these errors in the browser from DoJo:

DEBUG: invalid date string: 10/02/06
DEBUG: DEPRECATED: dojo.widget.DropdownDatePicker date attributes must be passed in Rfc3339 format – will be removed in version: 0.5

This is because I defined a custom Translator for the field. It is picking up it's format string for the parse/validation phase, but the date value is the initial displayed value used when generating the text box, and needs to be in "yyyy-MM-dd" format.

When changing this, don't use a static DateFormat, of course, as they aren't thread safe. Been bitten by that before - took a serious debug effort to track that one down. You can use an Object pool or ThreadLocal, however.