Sylvain Wallez wrote:
Daniel Fagerstrom wrote:
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The date pattern is used on the client-side by the calendar widget which has the very good idea to use SimpleDateFormat's pattern syntax (actually, this is one of the reasons that made me choose this calendar). So (fortunately!) the user doesn't see it :-)
Ok, didn't know that. I saw "yyyy-MM-dd" in one of the samples and made the wrong connection.
Having the datatype output an XML fragment is the first step towards client-side syntactical validation.
Seem like a good idea. We should support this in the stand alone converter as well. One possible way would be to introduce a "PatternedConvertor" interface that is an extension of Convertor and add a "String getPattern()" method. Then the pattern could be available from the template expression language for making client side validation possible.
WDYT?
/Daniel
