In general there are problems with woodstock components with respect to
surfacing EL expression errors.
During the conversion from 1.1 to 1.2 several new changes were not
addressed.
When the EL went from JSF EL to the "standalone" EL, exeption try/catch
blocks
were not added to catch EL expression errors.
In 1.1, JSF used to handle and surface them, since they owned them, but
not in 1.2.
-rick
Steven Bell wrote:
> Just an update. It seems to work fine when I put the converter on a
> bean and access it as #{bean.converter}. Not sure if this is a bug or
> something I was doing wrong in the first place.
>
> I'll just keep it on the bean. If this does look like a bug and you
> want me to do any more testing let me know.
>
> On 10/26/07, *Steven Bell* <bell.steven_at_gmail.com
> <mailto:bell.steven_at_gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Yes it does. I'm confidant that the converter works properly as
> I've used it before. This is my first attempt at using a custom
> converter with a woodstock component. I think my next step will
> by to try and put the converter as a field in a backing bean and
> use a #{ mybean.dateConverter} syntax to see if that works.
>
> The thing that seems strange to me is that when I use the
> #{customDateConverter} syntax I don't get any errors, it just
> seems like it ignores it. I keep getting the same errors and
> messages as if it wasn't there, and it converts properly when I
> use the default input format mm/dd/yyyy.
>
>
> On 10/26/07, *Bob Yennaco* < Bob.Yennaco_at_sun.com
> <mailto:Bob.Yennaco_at_sun.com>> wrote:
>
> Does com.expd.app.ap.ui.converter.DateConverter implement
> javax.faces.convert.Converter?
>
> Steven Bell wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I seem to be having a problem using a custom converter on the
> calendar
>> component. I used this converter before with a standard jsf
> text
>> field and it worked fine. Here's what I have in faces-config.
>>
>> <converter>
>> <converter-id>customDateConverter</converter-id>
>> <converter-class>
>> com.expd.app.ap.ui.converter.DateConverter
>> </converter-class>
>> </converter>
>>
>> This gives me an error telling me it can't convert a String to a
>> converter.
>>
>> <w:calendar id="invoiceDate" label="Invoice/Doc Date:"
>> required="true"
>> selectedDate="#{payableBackingBean.invoiceDate}"
>> converter="customDateConverter"
> dateFormatPatternHelp="" />
>>
>> If I try it like this is just seems to ignore it (doesn't stop at
>> break points) and use the default converter.
>>
>> <w:calendar id="invoiceDate" label="Invoice/Doc Date:"
> required="true"
>> selectedDate="#{payableBackingBean.invoiceDate}"
>> converter="#{customDateConverter}"
> dateFormatPatternHelp="" />
>>
>> It seems like I'm missing something simple here.
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>>
>> Steven Bell
>
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