I guess one way to look at it is that in AppPropertyEditBlocks.java, I can't have
<t:flexDateEditor name="prop:context.controlName" ... /> ! Bill On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 6:21 PM, Howard Lewis Ship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hard to tell without checking the code, but: looks like the > FlexDataEditor delegates all its behavior to the built-in DateField > component, right? > > So the DateField is the component that (at render) negotiates an > control name (i.e., FormSupport.allocateControlName() ), and then > pushes the parsed and validated date back up. You should see this in > the HTML and form submission, a component whose client element has a > name like "datefield" (or "datefield_0", etc.). > > Presumable the DateField is tied to a property of the FlexDateEditor, > and that property is tied eventually up to your bean. > > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Bill Holloway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've got a custom data type called FlexDate, and I've made a simple > > <t:flexdateeditor> component for it which (for now) just holds a date > > field. It will get more complex later. I put this editor into my > > AppPropertyEditBlocks.tml. Code is below. Then I have a data object > with > > an instance var of FlexDate type. I pump this into a beanformeditor. > The > > problem is that the elementName arg of processSubmission (in > > FlexDateEditor.java) never seems to be in my > _request.getParameterNames() so > > I can extract the date! Help? > > > > FlexDateEditor.tml: > > > > <div class="flexDateEditor" xmlns:t=" > > http://tapestry.apache.org/schema/tapestry_5_0_0.xsd";> > > > > <t:dateField value="date1" /> > > > > </div> > > > > Date1 is defined in FlexDateEditor.java and evaluated to new Date() > during > > beginRender(). > > > > AppPropertyEditBlocks.tml (snippet): > > > > <t:block t:id="flexDate"> > > > > <t:label for="flexDateEditor" /> > > <t:flexDateEditor t:id="flexDateEditor" /> > > > > </t:block> > > > > The elementName arg of processSubmission in FlexDateEditor.java is > always > > the name of the instance variable in my data object that goes into > > beanformeditor. Grr. How can I get the fields of the datefield to be > named > > that way so I can extract the value? > > > > -- > > Bill @ PeoplePad > > > > > > -- > Howard M. Lewis Ship > > Creator Apache Tapestry and Apache HiveMind > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Bill @ PeoplePad
