[jbossseam-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Commented: (JBSEAM-623) <s:selectDate> localization

[Stephan Bublava (JIRA)]

    [ http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBSEAM-623?page=comments#action_12350645 ] 
            
Stephan Bublava commented on JBSEAM-623:
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> @Stephan: I had to work on it, since I had to release
> something today and the (internal) customer did not accept
> dates in the mdy with / format and instead of hardcoding it
> I thought: "lets contribute".

It's great, that you did. It's just funny, that three patches for this problem were contributed on the same day.

> btw, Isn't it possible to ask the short format for the local
> within Java and use that as the default format (unless a
> dateconverter is specified) I did not look at it yesterday
> since I had to little time.

Yes, that should work, but assuming that the date isn't stored as string in your model, a converter will be required anyway. 

> Besides that, I was thinking of adding some shortcuts
> since it is almost impossible to use this selectDate to
> select a birthday (try selecting 02-12-1971 (dmy) you 
> keep clicking...... any thoughts? 

We could add another two buttons to step forward / backward an entire year (should be rather straightforward), but for your example (more than 30 years delta) the only realistic solution I see, is to type in the date.

> otoh, the datepicker from icefaces is even worse... all 
> that ajax to select a date..... yuck.... They definately 
> have to improve that component.

I agree. The best calendar I've seen so far is from the Yahoo UI library (http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/), but wrapping it into a JSF component will be a bit of a challenge...


> <s:selectDate> localization
> ---------------------------
>
>                 Key: JBSEAM-623
>                 URL: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBSEAM-623
>             Project: JBoss Seam
>          Issue Type: Patch
>          Components: JSF
>    Affects Versions: 1.1.0.GA
>            Reporter: Stephan Bublava
>         Assigned To: Norman Richards
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 1.1.1.GA
>
>         Attachments: adding-local-to-selectdate-display.txt, selectDate-dateFormat-patch.txt, selectdate-localization-patch-2.txt, selectdate-localization-patch.txt
>
>
> Currently <s:selectDate> is not locale-aware. This affects day names, month names, buttons as well as the date string written to the text field via JavaScript.
> selectdate-localization-patch.txt is a first step to improve this.
> Changes include:
> - Weekends use a distinct CSS style and can be highlighted if desired. (I've changed the booking example to demonstrate this).
> - The first day of the week is no longer harcoded to Sunday, but calculated according to the current locale settings (e.g. Monday for German).
> - Day and month names are localised as well.
> Open issues:
> - Weekends are hardcoded to Saturday and Sunday. I have no idea how determine this info using Calendar, &c. APIs.
> - Date formats are not kept in sync between JSF and JavaScript, which always uses MM/DD/YYYY, regardless of the locale.
> - Button names ("close", "this month") are still hardcoded.
> - It might be more flexible, to translate day / month names with the application ResourceBundle instead of using DateFormatSymbols.

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