Validating Dates in JSF using convertDateTime an overriding message format

Question

Have seen a way to validate dates with this kind of code snippet:
         <h:inputText id="departDate"
            value="#{flight.departDate}">
           <f:convertDateTime pattern="dd/MM/yy"/>
         </h:inputText>
         <h:message for="departDate"/>-----
This results in an ugly default error message when things go wrong like so:
j_id_jsp_1447383442_1:departDate: 'a' could not be understood as a date. Example: 28/02/08
Is there a way I can override this by using some sort of message placeholder, so I get a message like:
*"Depart Date 's' is invalid"*
So placeholder message would be *"[0} {1} is invalid"*, where parm *0* would be *"Depart Date"* and parm *1* would be value *"#{flight.departDate}"*.
I know you can resort to a full blown custom converter class, but I was wondering if I could put a message formatted with placeholders directly into the code snippet.
Is this feasible?

Answer 1

After several more iterations of testing, I discovered the problem is actually due to using the trinidad rendering kit. Part of my migration to 1.2 involved experimenting with the use of the trinidad components. I thought I had removed all the trinidad stuff from my application during testing of this date problem, but I discovered that I had left the following in:
web-app library:    trinidad-1.2.10
faces-config.xml entry:
    <default-render-kit-id>
            org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.core
    </default-render-kit-id>once these items were removed, the application worked as expected. So it looks like the problem is with the trinidad rendering kit/library.
Edited by: emprice26 on Aug 11, 2009 6:02 PM