Hi, I am head butting a virtual brick wall trying to get the
datetimepicker dojo widget to work with a theme=simple form.
I am in the middle of upgrading a webwork app to struts2 2.3.15.3. The
good news is that datetimepicker works just like I would expect it in
hundreds of places across the migrated application but only if the form
is theme=xhtml. However if the form is simple (which it is in this
case), then what used to work "auto magically" in webwork seems a little
more troublesome in struts 2. There is some critical step I am missing
but am yet to figure it out.
This is what I am doing. The page uses an iterator to populate a list
(of invoice items under an invoice) and then allows the user to edit any
item in the list by clicking an "Edit" link that appears for each item
in the list.
The <td> cell for the "Edit" link looks like:
<td class="evenRow">
<a <%=linkmouseover%> href="javascript:editInvoiceItem('<s:property
value="id"/>', '<s:property escape="false" value="providerHtml"/>',
'<s:property value="createDate"/>', '<s:property value="serviceCode"/>',
'<s:property escape="false" value="serviceDescriptionHtml"/>',
'<s:property value="units"/>', '<s:property value="cost"/>',
'<s:property value="gstApplies"/>', '<s:property
value="taxInclusive"/>');">Edit</a>
</td>
And the javascript editInvoiceItem that gets called looks like:
function editInvoiceItem(id, provider, createDate, serviceCode,
serviceDescription, units, cost, gstApplies, taxInclusive) {
document.getElementById("invItemId").value = id;
document.getElementById("provider").value = provider;
document.getElementById("createDate").value = createDate;
document.getElementById("code").value = serviceCode;
document.getElementById("desc").value = serviceDescription;
document.getElementById("units").value = units;
document.getElementById("cost").value = cost;
document.getElementById("gstApplies").value = gstApplies;
document.getElementById("taxInclusive").value = taxInclusive;
units=units.replace(/\$|\,/g,'');
cost=cost.replace(/\$|\,/g,'');
calculateLineItem();
}
And the theme=simple form that is auto populated when the user clicks
"Edit" looks like...
<s:form theme="simple" id="itemAdd" name="itemAdd" action="invoice"
method="post">
<s:hidden name="cmd" value="addItem" />
<s:hidden name="objType" />
<s:hidden name="objId" />
<s:hidden name="model" />
<s:hidden name="invId" value="%{invoice.id}" />
<s:hidden name="invoice.thirdPartyName" />
<s:hidden name="invoice.thirdPartyAddress" />
<s:hidden name="invoiceItem.id" id="invItemId"/>
<s:hidden name="invoiceItem.provider" id="provider" value="addItem"/>
<s:hidden name="role" />
<tr>
<td class="evenRow"><sx:datetimepicker id="createDate"
displayFormat="%{getText('dateFormat')}" name="invoiceItem.createDate"
/></td>
<td class="evenRow"><s:select id="code" emptyOption="true"
name="invoiceItem.serviceCode" list="invoiceCodes"/></td>
<td class="evenRow"><s:textfield id="desc" size="20"
name="invoiceItem.serviceDescription"/></td>
<td class="evenRow"><s:textfield onchange="calculateLineItem()"
id="units" size="4" name="invoiceItem.units"/></td>
<td class="evenRow"><s:textfield onchange="calculateLineItem()"
id="cost" size="6" name="invoiceItem.cost"/></td>
<td class="evenRow"><s:textfield id="gst" size="4" readonly="true"
name="invoiceItem.gst"/></td>
<td class="evenRow"><s:textfield id="total" size="6" readonly="true"
name="invoiceItem.total"/></td>
<td class="evenRow"><s:select onchange="calculateLineItem()"
name="invoiceItem.gstApplies" id="gstApplies"
emptyOption="false"
list="#{'Yes':'Yes', 'No':'No'}"/></td>
<td class="evenRow"><s:select onchange="calculateLineItem()"
name="invoiceItem.taxInclusive" id="taxInclusive"
emptyOption="false"
list="#{'No':'No', 'Yes':'Yes'}"/></td>
<td class="evenRow"> </td>
<td class="evenRow"><s:submit theme="simple" align="left"
value="Save" /></td>
</tr>
</s:form>
There are 2 problems:
- the field "createDate" is not populated when the user clicks the
"Edit" link (while all the other non-date fields referenced in the
javascript are)
- and if I manually enter a new date via the datetimepicker widget and
click a button to save the updated invoice item data, then I get a
validation error saying the "createDate" field is missing
So it looks like there is some extra getter/setter logic that is
required for a datetimepicker in theme=simple mode that is needed for
any of the other non-date fields and wasn't needed in webwork (probably
because it used a different date widget).
Here's hoping someone can point me in the right direction.
Regards - Patrick
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Patrick Kelly
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*River**Dynamics*
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