Oddly enough, I was going to write about how to handle this in my blog today. What I
do to manage this is to use an object that wraps a java.util.Date and provides getters
and setters for the necessary fields, such as hour, minute, day, month, and year.
Such an object might look like:
public class DateWrapper {
private Date d;
public DateWrapper(Date d) {
internal = d;
}
public Date getDate() {
// return the updated Date instance.
}
public int getHour() {
// return the hour as an int, either using a Calendar instance or
// by parsing it out via SimpleDateFormat.
}
public void setHour(int hour) {
// set the hour in the date using a Calendar instance.
}
}
I'm sure you can figure out the rest of it.
The DateWrapper object is then used as a field in your ActionForm or DynaForm. Then,
in the JSP, just use the appropriate property names in your <html:select> lists:
<html:select property="startDate.hour">
...
</html:select>
<html:select property="startDate.minute">
...
</html:select>
If you just want to present the underlying Date instance, just do something like this:
<fmt:formatDate value="${myForm.map.startDate.date}" pattern="yyyy-MM-dd h:m a"/>
Hope that helps. This is the same mechanism I use and I'm having great results with
it.
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Nick Heudecker
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