Rick,
Thanks for your response. I tried the same but it's not sorting right.
Please see below and suggest what's the mistake?
have an obj Customer
Customer has attributes
name - String
createDate - Date
in struts action
DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("MM-dd-yyyy");
custObj1.setCreateDate(dateFormat.parse("7-1-2005"));
and created list of cust objects
in jsp
<display:table name="sessionScope.Form1.custList" id="custRow"
requestURI="PrepareAction.do" defaultsort="2" defaultorder="descending"
pagesize="6">
.......
......
<!-- Create Date -->
<display:column titleKey="lbl.crdate" sortable="true" >
<c:if test="${custRow.createDate != null}" >
<fmt:formatDate value="${custRow.createDate}" pattern="MM-dd-yyyy"
var="crtDate"/>
<c:out value="${crtDate}"/>
<!--c:out value="${custRow.createDate}"/-->
</c:if>
</display:column>
..........
............
</display:table>
Thanks.
>From: "Rick Herrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: displaytag-user@lists.sourceforge.net
>To: displaytag-user@lists.sourceforge.net
>Subject: Re: [displaytag-user] sort not working for Date
>Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 09:43:47 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Ed Webb wrote:
> > Rick Herrick wrote:
> >> Ed Webb wrote:
> >>
> >>> fea jabi wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Thanks for your responses. I appreciate that.
> >>>>
> >>>> I used the JSTL to format the date. Will it work using that? Do I
>have
> >>>> to
> >>>> use decorator itself?
> >>>>
> >>> Use the Decorator instead
> >>
> >> I was actually going to suggest using JSTL for the date format. That
> >> lets
> >> the sort work on the date object directly (instead of the text
> >> representation of the date), but doesn't require extra code. I have an
> >> adversion to using decorators. Also, the JSTL date format is easily
> >> localizable and easily changeable in a deployed app, whereas changes to
> >> code require redeployment or hot-patching of the app.
> >>
> >> Why would you recommend using the decorator instead?
> >>
> > From what I remember from the original post, using the JSTL did not
> > allow the dates to be sorted chronologically, they were being sorted
> > alphabetically. If the JSTL can be used to format the date and
> > DisplayTag can correctly sort the Date objects then that'd be the easier
> > option. I think that's already been tried and found to not work which is
> > why I suggested a Decorator. I suspect I encountered a similar problem
> > when I began working with DisplayTag but it was so long ago now that
> > I've forgotten.
>
>The issue with the sorting would depend on the output of the getter. If
>the getter puts out a Date object, then sorting would sort
>chronologically. If the getter puts out a string containing a formatted
>date, then it would sort alphabetically. Just whatever the default
>comparator for the data type is.
>
>You need to treat the tags for the date a bit differently when you're
>using JSTL, however. Instead of something like:
>
><display:column property="myDate"/>
>
>Instead do something like (assuming table tag declares uid="item"):
>
><display:column sortProperty="myDate" title="Date">
> <fmt:formatDate value="${item.myDate}" pattern="MM/dd/yyyy"/>
></display:column>
>
>You'll want to play with the pattern and maybe some other attrs on the
><fmt:formatDate> tag. There are also some neat ways to set up
>localization with this in conjunction with the <fmt:setLocale> tag, but I
>don't really know how to do it.
>
>--
>Rick Herrick
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>Proud member of the reality-based community
>
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>Russell
>
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