From: Sriram Thyagarajan <Sriram_Thyagarajan_at_KEANE-NNE.com>
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 18:28:05 -0400

I have the followind definition in my xsd file

<xsd:schema xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
            xmlns:jxb="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/jaxb"
            jxb:version="1.0">
<xsd:simpleType name="Date_CCYYMMDD">
  <xsd:annotation>
     <xsd:appinfo>
        <jxb:javaType name="java.util.Calendar"
        parseMethod="XMLDataConvertor.parseDateToCalendar"
        printMethod="XMLDataConvertor.parseCalendarToDate" />
     </xsd:appinfo>
  </xsd:annotation>
  <xsd:restriction base="xsd:date">
  </xsd:restriction>
</xsd:simpleType>

The two methods to convert are also defined...

  public static java.util.Calendar parseDateToCalendar(String inDate)
      throws ParseException {
    SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMdd");
    sdf.setLenient(false);
    Date dt = sdf.parse(inDate);
    Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
    cal.setTime(dt);
    return cal;
  }

  public static String parseCalendarToDate(Calendar inCalendar) {
    SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMdd");
    sdf.setLenient(false);
    Date dt = inCalendar.getTime();
    String outDate = sdf.format(dt);
    return outDate;
  }

I have set Validation to true during unmarshalling and have my own event
handler to catch events

      //Set the validation to true
      _unMarshaller.setValidating(true);


When I have a date in the format yyyyyMMDD, the event handler gets an event
that the date does not fit in the format (CCYY-MM-DD, the default)..

Looks like the conversion is first attempted with the default format and
then with my conversion methods...

Am I doing something wrong here ? Why would the Event Handler be invoked
for when the data is valid when it goes though my implementation of the
DataConverter ? Also If I turn the validtion during unmarshalling to false,
it works...

All I am trying to do here is to accept dates in YYYYYMMDD (without the
'-'s) Is there any other easier way to accept date in different format ?


Thanks,
Sriram