OnPageLoad

Question

Hi,
I have an adf edit form based on a view. on the page load i want to display the current date on an inputtext field.
i added this function OnPageLoad on the managed bean for the page and my class event extending PagePhaseListener class.
public void onPageLoad() {
java.util.Date currDate = GregorianCalendar.getInstance().getTime();
System.out.println(currDate);
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
String sqlDateString = sdf.format(currDate);
System.out.println(sqlDateString);
FacesContext ctx = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();
FacesMessage saveMsg = new FacesMessage(sqlDateString);
ctx.addMessage(null,saveMsg);
AttributeBinding TextBind1 = (AttributeBinding)getBindings().getControlBinding("BorrowDate");
TextBind1.setInputValue(sqlDateString);
when i am running the page is giving the following error "Error testing property 'inputValue' in bean of type null" for the BorrowDate
but it is displaying in the FacesMessage.
Anyone please help urgent.
Thanks
Mahdi

Answer 1

Hi,
why don't you create a managed bean method
String currDate;
public void setCurrDate(String d){
public String getCurrDate(){
Date d = GregorianCalendar.getInstance().getTime();
SimpleDateFormatter sdf = new SimpleDateFormatter("dd-MMM-yyyy");
String s = sdf.parse(d);
return s;
(Note that I didn't check the syntax, so the code above might not be accurate)
The you set the following EL string to the value property of the output component
#{managedBean.currDate}
This will add the current date to the page. Using a PagePhaseListener for such a trivial task is just too heavyweight
Frank