The only issue I would mention is that there's currently an open ticket
because MappedDateTime won't save the time portion when you use Derby. I
haven't had time to triage this yet.
Derek
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 3:01 AM, Timothy Perrett <timo...@getintheloop.eu>wrote:
>
> 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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