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Re: rich calender for jbpm task variable not working
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created by <a href="http://community.jboss.org/people/laszlovandenhoek">László van den Hoek</a> in <i>jBPM</i> - <a href="http://community.jboss.org/message/618356#618356">View the full discussion</a>
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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><p><span>I solved the problem using a Converter. I used this Ilya Shaikovsky's example in this thread as a starting point: </span><a class="" href="http://community.jboss.org/message/57921#57921" target="_blank">http://community.jboss.org/message/57921</a></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>in faces-config.xml:</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>{code}</p><p> <converter></p><p>  <converter-id>calendarTimestampConverter</converter-id></p><p>  <converter-class>my.client.CalendarTimestampConverter</converter-class></p><p> </converter></p><p>{code}</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>CalendarTimestampConverter.java:</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>{code}</p><p>package my.client;</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>import java.util.Date;</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>import javax.faces.component.UIComponent;</p><p>import javax.faces.context.FacesContext;</p><p>import javax.faces.convert.ConverterException;</p><p>import javax.faces.convert.DateTimeConverter;</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>import org.apache.log4j.Logger;</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>public class CalendarTimestampConverter extends DateTimeConverter {</p><p>  </p><p>          private Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(getClass()); </p><p>  </p><p>          @Override</p><p>          public Object getAsObject(FacesContext arg0, UIComponent component,</p><p>                              String dateString) {</p><p>                    logger.debug("getAsObject(): " + dateString);</p><p>                    Object result;</p><p>                    try {</p><p>                              result = super.getAsObject(arg0, component, dateString);</p><p>                              if (result instanceof Date) {</p><p>                                        //make it a Timestamp, because that is what jBPM will make of it anyway</p><p>                                        result = new java.sql.Timestamp(((Date) result).getTime());</p><p>                              }</p><p>                    } catch (ConverterException ex) {</p><p>                              return null;</p><p>                    }</p><p>                    return result;</p><p>          }</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>          @Override</p><p>          public String getAsString(FacesContext arg0, UIComponent component,</p><p>                              Object dateObject) {</p><p>                    logger.debug("getAsString(): " + (dateObject == null ? null : (dateObject.getClass().getSimpleName() + " " + dateObject.toString())));</p><p>                    String result = null;</p><p>                    try {</p><p>                              result = super.getAsString(arg0, component, dateObject);</p><p>                    } catch (ConverterException ex) {</p><p>                              return null;</p><p>                    }</p><p>                    return result;</p><p>          }</p><p>}</p><p>{code}</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Then I simply add converter="calendarTimestampConverter" to my rich:calendar, and presto! No more jBPM problems.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Still, this is a hack and should be fixed in jBPM, IMO.</p></div>
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