Hello, We use Wicket 1.3.5 and I found something annoying with the DateTextField. In the constructor of that class, the converter is created internally. If I want to use my own converter, I need to inherit DateTextField, add a converter as a member, and return it in the getConverter method.
Why not have a protected method (that can be overridden) that returns the converter: Instead of: public DateTextField(String id, IModel model, String datePattern) { super(id, model, Date.class); this.datePattern = datePattern; *this.converter = new DateConverter() { private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L; /** * @see org.apache.wicket.util.convert.converters.DateConverter#getDateFormat(java.util.Locale) */ public DateFormat getDateFormat(Locale locale) { return new SimpleDateFormat(DateTextField.this.datePattern); } };* } Do something like: public DateTextField(String id, IModel model, String datePattern) { super(id, model, Date.class); this.datePattern = datePattern; *this.converter = newDateConverter();* } and protected newDateConverter() { return new DateConverter() { private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L; /** * @see org.apache.wicket.util.convert.converters.DateConverter#getDateFormat(java.util.Locale) */ public DateFormat getDateFormat(Locale locale) { return new SimpleDateFormat(DateTextField.this.datePattern); } }; } BTW, I know that we can also use the newConverterLocator() in our application. Do you think I should open a JIRA issue with 'wish' for that? Eyal Golan egola...@gmail.com Visit: http://jvdrums.sourceforge.net/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/egolan74 P Save a tree. Please don't print this e-mail unless it's really necessary