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François


On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Jayakrishnan R <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I have a DateTextField component in my application and I want the input of
> date using a predefined pattern. The pattern that I need is "yyyy-MM-dd". I
> created the DateTextField using the following code.
>
>     DateTextField dtf_ExpiryDate =
> DateTextField.forDatePattern("ExpDate", "yyyy-MM-dd");
>     dtf_ExpiryDate.add(new DatePicker());
>
> It helps to prevent date input in most of other formats. But it accepts
> input in dd-MM-yyyy format and converts it into some weird format. For
> example, *12-06-2013* is automatically converted to *0012-06-20*.
>
> Is there a way to throw an error when the date is given in dd-MM-yyyy ?
>
> Javadocs of DateTextField<
> http://wicket.apache.org/apidocs/1.4/org/apache/wicket/datetime/markup/html/form/DateTextField.html
> >says
> that the conversion is done internally using the Joda time parser. Is
> there a way to add more constraints ?
>
> I really don't want the data to be captured as String and add a
> StringValidator to check if it confirms to the pattern using Regex.
>
> Thank you
>
> --
> Thanks & Regards
> JK
>

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