Timezone effects on Date and Timestamp fields in af:query component

Question

Hello,
I'm working on an ADF application where time zone is configured as follows:
* Dynamic View Layer time zone is configured in trinidad-config.xml file and bound to a session scoped value:
<trinidad-config>
  <skin-family>fusionFx</skin-family>
  <time-zone>#{sessionScope.tz}</time-zone>
</trinidad-config>* ADF BC time zone is configured in adf-config.xml file and bound to View Layer time zone:
<adf-config>
  <user-time-zone-config xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/adf/usertimezone/config">
    <user-timezone expression="#{adfFacesContext.timeZone.ID}"/>
  </user-time-zone-config>
</adf-config>The problem here is that Dates and Timestamp values work as expected all over the application except for the af:query component. When displayed as af:inputDate in af:form, Dates and Timestamp values are NOT getting converted to the time zone (TZ) configured in trinidad-config.xml file, whereas TimestampTz and TimestampLtz are. However, when displayed in af:query component, Dates and Timestamp values are automatically converted to View Layer TZ after a search has been performed.
For example, say View Layer TZ = US/Pacific and we enter 01/jun/2011 as a search criteria of type Date and then click on the Search button. The displayed value automatically changes to 25/nov/2011, that is, it gets converted to the WLS JVM time zone, which is set to Europe/London.
Is conversion of Date and Timestamps in af:query component the expected behaviour or could this be a bug?
Is there any way to avoid this conversion?
Thanks in advance
Version:
ADF Business Components 11.1.1.59.23
Java(TM) Platform 1.6.0_21
Oracle IDE 11.1.1.4.37.59.23
PMD JDeveloper Extension 4.2.5.3.0
Repost on 26-nov-2011 9:29
Repost on 28-nov-2011 15:10
Edited by: Barbara Gelabert on 26-nov-2011 9:29
Edited by: Barbara Gelabert on 28-nov-2011 15:10

Answer 1

Hi,
Thanks for your reply. This certainly seems promising. However, I am getting a connection error now.
The following...
jar_loaded = require 'ojdbc14.jar'
puts "Oracle jar loaded? #{jar_loaded}"
puts "Starting active record"
require 'rubygems'
gem 'activerecord'
gem 'activerecord-oracle_enhanced-adapter'
require 'activerecord'
puts "Connecting to MXGN"
ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(
:adapter => 'oracle_enhanced',
:host => 'THEHOST',
:port => '1550',
:database => 'THEDB',
:username => 'THEUSER',
:password => 'THEPASSWORD'
... produces
Oracle jar loaded? true
Starting active record
Connecting to MXGN
ERROR: ActiveRecord oracle_enhanced adapter could not load Oracle JDBC driver. Please install ojdbc14.jar library.
ERROR: ActiveRecord oracle_enhanced adapter could not load Oracle JDBC driver. Please install ojdbc14.jar library.
C:/jruby/jruby-1.2.0/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.2/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_specification.rb:76:in `establish_connection': Please install the oracle_enhanced adapter: `gem install activerecord-oracle_enhanced-adapter` (LoadError) (RuntimeError)
from H:\sandbox\DBPlay\lib\main_enhanced.rb:12
I'm confused. Am I missing the driver, or have I failed to setup the enhanced Oracle adapter?
I have tried moving the jar to $JRUBY_HOME/lib too, but the result was the same.
All help would be greatly appreciated.
Many Thanks
Adrian