Greg,
I dont really use toForm; have you explored "doing it manually"? It
seems like that would be able to tell you if there is a problem with
toForm on MappedDateTime.
I use mapped date time quite a bit and have no problems at all
persisting the dates :-)
Cheers, Tim
On Jun 3, 3:09 am, g-man <gregor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Are there no ideas for my problem?
>
> I have many more questions saved up, but would like to clear each out
> before starting a new one.
>
> Thanks again!
>
> On May 31, 1:57 pm, g-man <gregor...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > As I proceed to enhance the ToDo example, I have added a new field to
> > the ToDo.scala model:
>
> > object dueOn extends MappedDateTime(this) {
> > final val dateFormat = DateFormat.getDateInstance
> > (DateFormat.SHORT)
> > override def asHtml = Text(dateFormat.format(is))}
>
> > Next, I added a binding in the TD.scala snippet within the add method
> > of the TD class:
>
> > def doBind(form: NodeSeq) = {
> > bind("todo", form, "desc" -> todo.desc.toForm,
> > "priority" -> todo.priority.toForm,
> > "dueOn" -> todo.dueOn.toForm,
> > "submit" -> submit("create new Task",
> > checkAndSave)}
>
> > Then, the todo.html template gets a bind point:
>
> > <lift:TD.add form="post">
> > ...
> > <todo:dueOn/>
> > <todo:submit><button/></todo:submit>
> > </lift:TD.add>
>
> > When I check the database, the record does save, and all the other
> > fields are OK, but the date itself is <null>.
>
> > Somehow, it seems the text of the input field is not getting changed
> > into a Date object for the database to handle, right?
>
> > When I look at the PocketChange app from the book, everything is done
> > completely differently from the ToDo example (no use of _toForm, for
> > instance).
>
> > I know dates and times are convoluted in Java, so what am I missing?
>
> > Thanks!
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