Skipping date conversion validation

["Virtudazo, Dennis (Exchange)" <dv...@bear.com>]

I have an inputText that is not required, that uses the
f:convertDateTime tag. If I blank out the inputText it causes a dateTime
conversion error. How can I skip the conversion when the input is blank?

Below is the code:

<h:inputText id="startTime" value="#{bean.startTime}" required="false">
  <f:convertDateTime type="time" timeStyle="short"/>
</h:inputText>



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Re: Skipping date conversion validation

[Mike Kienenberger <mk...@gmail.com>]

Are you sure you blanked it out?

If you take a look at javax.faces.component.UIInput.validate(), you'll see

        if (submittedValue == null) return;
        Object convertedValue = getConvertedValue(context, submittedValue);

It seems to me that you'd never trigger the converter if the value was
not specified.   I don't think http sends back form data for empty
inputs, but maybe I'm wrong.

You could try setting a breakpoint on the code above and examine the
contents of submittedValue to see what it holds.

On 11/3/05, Virtudazo, Dennis (Exchange) <dv...@bear.com> wrote:
> I have an inputText that is not required, that uses the
> f:convertDateTime tag. If I blank out the inputText it causes a dateTime
> conversion error. How can I skip the conversion when the input is blank?
>
> Below is the code:
>
> <h:inputText id="startTime" value="#{bean.startTime}" required="false">
>   <f:convertDateTime type="time" timeStyle="short"/>
> </h:inputText>
>
>
>
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