date conversion

[Jolie Lee]

hi, got problem with date conversion.

for my input field, i have dd-mm-yyyy, when i stored into ms-sql, it becomes, mm-dd-yyyy, when i retrieved, it becomes yyyy-mm-dd. how can i convert into the format of dd-mm-yyyy?

i'm using the getter methods to get all the data in the db, therefore i can't really format it before i display it in my jsp pages.

i tried the jsf convertdatetime as well but it didn't seems to work.

any advise pls?

[Arul Jose]

we are storing the time in milliseconds. so you can take it out and display it in any format.

jose

[Jolie Lee]

the data type i'm using for the date is datetime. i can't really change it because all the date are stored in this format.

when i create a getter method to convert the date into the format i want, it keeps giving me error:

javax.servlet.ServletException: An error occurred while evaluating custom action attribute "value" with value "${result.getPurchaseDateStr}": Unable to find a value for "getPurchaseDateStr" in object of class "$Proxy247" using operator "." (null)

[Jolie Lee]

i guess i can't create my own get method to do the conversion...

how can i localize my date format, for eg, whenever i select a date from db, i will automatically format it into dd-mm-yyyy?

[Varun Khanna]

JSF provides date converter (Using DateFormat class) and it should work else you can use SimpleDateFormat class to do so while retriving your date from database.