Custom Type Converter & Session data

[Barry L. Kline]

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Thanks to Paweł Wielgus I was turned on to the prospect of using a
Custom Type Converter to handle a custom date problem.

To recap:

I have a form where the user can insert into java.sql.Timestamp field
either a date in the form yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm or just HH:mm.  If the user
keys only a time, there is another bean in the action that has a
java.sql.Timestamp field whose date part will be used as a reference.

There are four Timestamp fields that are associated:

Timestamp call came in (which will be used as the reference)
Timestamp call was picked up by tech
Timestamp problem was solved by tech
Timestamp tech is back at the office.

To make date entry easier, I wanted the form filled out something like this:

2011-01-01 08:00    (call came in, assigned automatically)

08:10

09:00

09:20

with the idea that if no date was entered the '2011-01-01' from the call
came in field would be used.

My problem is how to get that reference Timestamp into a location where
the custom type converter can pick it up.   I've tried putting it into
the session, but I'm getting a null value back with the
getSession().get() call, I've tried looking in the valueStack, amongst
other variations, but I have been unable to figure this out.

Here is my code which shows that things work if I create a current
Timestamp object:

  public Object convertFromString(Map context, String[] values, Class
toClass) {

      Timestamp ts = null;

System.out.println("OutageDateConverter.convertFromString " + values[0]);
//    ValueStack valueStack =
(ValueStack)context.get(ValueStack.VALUE_STACK);
//    Timestamp ref =
(Timestamp)valueStack.findValue("reportedOutage.reportedTimestamp");
Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
java.sql.Timestamp ref = new
java.sql.Timestamp(calendar.getTime().getTime());
      try {
         ts =
com.valleyrec.webapps.outages.util.DateManager.ReferencedStringToTimestamp(
ref, values[0] );
      } catch (java.text.ParseException pe ) {
         throw new TypeConversionException(pe.getMessage());
      }

System.out.println("Value of the created timestamp is: " + ts);
      return ts;
   }


Please forgive the hacked debugging code which is included.

Can anyone point me to a possible solution?  Any help would be greatly
appreciated.

Thanks!

Barry
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