Maybe I should indeed post this on the developers forum? Or open a JIRA?

Greets


2012/11/5 Benedikt Schlegel <codecab.dri...@googlemail.com>

> What I need is not what I want in this case.. I want to reuse wicket
> components as much as possible. I don't want to reinvent the wheel.
>
> In wicket, there are two separate, Date-specific TextField components:
> - org.apache.wicket.extensions.markup.html.form.DateTextField
> - org.apache.wicket.datetime.markup.html.form.DateTextField
>
> Both use different DateConverters, to be located at:
> - org.apache.wicket.util.convert.converter.DateConverter
> - org.apache.wicket.datetime.DateConverter
>
> The components in wicket-datetime are more convenient and powerful, so I'm
> gonna use them. The only drawback I see is the spartanic
> ConversionException, in which e.g. the dateformat information is missing.
> The exception created by wicket-etensions's DateConverter holds that
> information. So yes, I guess this is a break.
>
>
> That also raises a much bigger question: Why is that legacy code (my
> guess) in wicket-extensions still there? Why don't consolidate those two?
> As I see it, same authors were working on both packages?
>
>
>
> 2012/11/5 Martin Grigorov <mgrigo...@apache.org>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> We follow users@ mailing list too :-)
>>
>> Since
>> 1) DateConverter is not final
>> 2) the related methods in it are public, non-final
>> 3) it is possible to register custom converter for Date.class in
>> ConverterLocator
>>
>> I think you should be able to do what you need.
>> Are there any breaks ?
>>
>> On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Simon B <simon.bott...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi Benedikt
>> >
>> > Should this be posted on the "Forum for Wicket Core developers" forum?
>> >
>> > Simon
>> >
>> >
>> >
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