Primary Key Multiple Column with Date - parameter issue

Question

All,
I am having an issue that I cannot find the answer to. I have looked high and low to no avail. Please help.
The issue at hand is that I have a table that has a multiple column primary key and one of the columns happens to be a date and the other is a string. I have a basic search and I want an update picture in the results table that the users can click on and go to a different page to update that record. The issue is when I fire an action based on the update picture I also want to set parameters based on the record that I selected. So I set the string parameter and that works fine. The issue is with the date. When i set the date parameter it works but it chops off the timestamp. Later when I try to get this parameter 'pageContext.getParameter("dateParameter");' it will bring in a date like 15-Dec-2008 but I need the entire date and timestamp (i.e. 15-Dec-2008 10:20:33) to correctly identify the record.
Please help!
Thanks,
Colby J

Answer 1

Hi
since every parameter go in url as a string format so u will never get the date parameter with complete timestamp,the solution would de
1.) Set a fire action on update picture,give its event name as "update",
2.) clicking on update picture will fire this event .
3.) in processFormrequest method of controller
OAApplicationModule am = pageContext.getApplicationModule(webBean);
if ("update".equals(pageContext.getParameter("event")))
// this will give the select row where update is clicked
String rowReference = pageContext.getParameter(OAWebBeanConstants.EVENT_SOURCE_ROW_REFERENCE);
VORowImpl row = (EmployeeSummaryVORowImpl)am.findRowByRef(rowReference);
Timestamp sdateVal=(String)row.getAttribute("Date value");
// this will transfer the values to next page
pageContext.putTransactionTransientValue("transferdvalue",sdateVal);
// and in the next page u can get the value like this
timestamp getDateVal=pageContext.getTransactionTransientValue("transferdvalue"l);
hope this will resolve your issue,Please let me know if u face any issue
thanx
Pratap