[Wicket-user] question about date format for textfield

[Jaime De La Jara]

Hi, I've been trying to develop an application with wicket, but I don't know how to customize the date format for a textfield. I'm using the DatePickercomponent but I use a different format : dd-MM-yyyy, when I submit the form an exception is thrown because the format is not recognized, I tried to redefine the getConverter method as follows :

TextField fecha = new TextField("fecha", Date.class)
                        {
                         public IConverter getConverter()
                         {
                           return new IConverter()
                           {
                            public Object convert(Object o, Class c)
                            {
                              try
                               {
                                return new               
                                          SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy").parse((String)o);
                              }
                              catch(ParseException pex)
                               {
                                 return null;
                               }                                      
                            }
                           public void setLocale(Locale loc)
                           {}
                           public Locale getLocale()
                            {
                             return Locale.getDefault();
                             }                             
                        };
                      }
                    } ;

but a ClassCastException is thrown, since the method is called twice, once with a String value and once with a Date value. I don't know what is going on, any help on this would be appreciated or a simpler way to accomplish what I want to do .

Thanks.

---

Blab-away for as little as 1¢/min. Make PC-to-Phone Calls using Yahoo! Messenger with Voice.