Problem with af:selectInputDate (no calendar popup)

Question

Hi All,
I have a problem with the af:selectInputDate component and the calendar popup when using a custom converter. My converter converts the date in a way, that it always has a four digit year depending on the short date format and the corresponding locale, e.g. 01/18/2007 instead of 01/18/07 for en-us. It looks like when I am using my converter with the component in the following way some javascript is not generated by the af:selectInputDate which results in an javascript error when clicking on the popup button:
<h:panelGroup>
<af:selectInputDate id="idPatientBirthDate" columns="12" simple="true" value="#{PatientDetails.patient.birthDate}">
<f:converter converterId="BirthdateConverter" />
</af:selectInputDate>
<h:message for="idPatientBirthDate" errorClass="errorMessageStyle"></h:message>     
</h:panelGroup>
The following javascript is not generated using the above jsf:
<script>
if(window['_dfs'] == (void 0)){var _dfs=new Object();}_dfs["_id43:general:idPatientBirthDate"]='M/d/yyyy';function __id43Validator(){return true;}
</script>
I am using version 10.1.3.0.4 of ADF faces.
My BirthdateConverter is a standard converter that implements the Converter interface and is not doing any magical. It works perfectly for other components. An interesting fact is, that the above javascript gets generated when I am using no converter at all or the standard date/time converters like f:convertDateTime provided by the RI. However, these don't provide the functionality I need.
I have the bad feeling, that I am missing something. Does anyone else ran across this problem?
Thanks,
Herbert

Answer 1

Frank,
Thank you for your answer. I'm not using ADF BC, so is there a possible workaround? My model provides a standard java.util.Date. My converter looks like:
public class BirthdateConverter implements Converter {
  public Object getAsObject(FacesContext facesContext, UIComponent uIComponent, String sDate) {
    Locale locale = facesContext.getCurrentInstance().getExternalContext().getRequestLocale();
    String pattern = AppUtil.getFourDigitYearPattern(DateFormat.SHORT);
    SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(pattern, locale);
    java.util.Date d = sdf.parse(sDate);
    // converter logic
    return d;
  public String getAsString(FacesContext facesContext, UIComponent uIComponent, Object object) {
    if (object == null)
      return null;
    if (!(object instanceof Date))
      return object.toString();
    Locale locale = facesContext.getCurrentInstance().getExternalContext().getRequestLocale();
    String pattern = AppUtil.getFourDigitYearPattern(DateFormat.SHORT);
    SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(pattern, locale);
    return sdf.format((java.util.Date)object);
}AppUtil.getFourDigitYearPattern(DateFormat.SHORT) provides a date pattern, e.g. "M/d/yyyy" for locale en-us. In the above code I did not include try-catch blocks to make it more readable.
Herbert
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