Grant,

What database are you using?

What version of Lift?

Thanks,

David

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Grant Wood <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> I've extended MappedDateTime to override _toForm (to add a
> class="datepicker") and set my own DateFormat for the input/output.
> This is so that I could use a JQuerry datepicker which allows me to
> set the time as well as the date.  Everything is working on the
> client, and the date with time is sent to the server fine, but upon
> retrieval from the database time is being lost.
>
> 08/25/2009 01:45 pm is what _toForm got sent from the form
> 08/25/2009 12:00 AM is what asHtml is printing back out.  Time is
> always 12:00 AM
>
> To me, it looks as if the date is having the time stripped off the
> long value of the Date.  Looking in the MappedDateTime source, I don't
> see anything that looks like it affects the long value of the Date
> other than toLong, which appears to only be used by asJsExp.  (To be
> sure I've overwritten toLong with no affect.)
>
> MappedDateTime converts the Date into a Timestamp for the database to
> store.  I know there are issues with Timestamp stripping off nanos,
> but I've never heard of them stripping off hours also.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.  Thank You!
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------ Example source
> follows:
>
> class MyMappedDateTime[T<:Mapper[T]](owner: T) extends MappedDateTime
> [T](owner) {
> ...
>
> // _toForm
> override def _toForm: Box[NodeSeq] =
>  S.fmapFunc( {s: List[String] => printDateFormatter.parse(s(0))} )
> { funcName =>
>    Full(<input type='text' class={classValue} id={fieldId} name=
> {funcName}
>      value={is match {case null => "" case s => printDate(s)}}/>)
> }
>
> // asHtml
> override def asHtml: Node = Text(is match {case null => "" case s =>
> printDate(s)})
>
> //date format:
> val printDateFormatter = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm aa")
>
> // format a given Date
> def printDate(in: Date) : String = printDateFormatter.format(in)
> ...
> }
>
> >
>


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