Reg: Assigning a Date value in context

Question

Hi,
Below is the code, where i am initializing a context with the date value.  But the date value is not getting assigned to the context.  What could be the problem?  Kindly help me out.
String s = "12/31/9999";
     try {
     SimpleDateFormat sd = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy");
     java.sql.Date date1 = (java.sql.Date)sd.parse(s);
     Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();
     c.set(2006, 8, 22); //month is zero based
     java.sql.Date date2 = (java.sql.Date)c.getTime();
     wdContext.currentContextElement().setValidto(date1);
Thanks & Regards.

Answer 1

Dhana,
Try this:
String s = "12/31/9999";
try {
//NOT USED ???
SimpleDateFormat sd = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy");
java.sql.Date date1 = new java.sql.Date( ((java.util.Date)sd.parse(s)).getTime());
Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();
c.set(2006, 8, 22); //month is zero based
java.sql.Date date2 = new java.sql.Date(c.getTimeInMillis());
wdContext.currentContextElement().setValidto(date2);
WD in fact requires java.sql.Date, but many Java API returns java.util.Date and you may not upcast java.util.Date to java.sql.Date
Valery Silaev
SaM Solutions
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