In Trinidad internal package there is a TypeConverter, use in the
Date/Number converter (internals) of Trinidad.
has a factory and some more stuff, perhaps worth to check (they were
introduced - looooooooooooooooooooooong time ago - to support the
mentioned "oracle types", from the binding layer)
-M
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Leonardo Uribe <lu4...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Martin
>
> Yes, to solve the problem with t:inputCalendar and t:inputDate it was clear
> an interface like that was necessary but it is tied to java.util.Date in
> this case:
>
> /**
> * Provide a bridge between the java.util.Date instance used by a component
> * that receive date/time values and the "business" value used to represent
> * the value.
> */
> public interface DateBusinessConverter
> {
> /**
> * Convert the java.util.Date instance calculated from submittedValue,
> * so the resulting object will be used later as the converted value
> * and validation.
> */
> public Object getBusinessValue(FacesContext context,
> UIComponent component,
> java.util.Date value);
>
> /**
> * Used to retrieve the value stored in the business bean and convert
> * it in a representation that the component (t:inputCalendar and
> * t:inputDate for example)using this class can manipulate.
> */
> public java.util.Date getDateValue(FacesContext context,
> UIComponent component,
> Object value);
> }
>
> This two components requires a date/time interface, and in this case the
> choice was java.util.Date, to keep things simple, and to indicate that
> internally, t:inputCalendar and t:inputDate only "understands"
> java.util.Date for rendering.
>
> best regards,
>
> Leonardo
>
> 2010/9/8 Martin Marinschek <mmarinsc...@apache.org>
>>
>> > I discussed this with the EG (and also Ed privately),
>> > and there wasn't much interest for adding this.
>>
>> P.S.: it might however be useful to have this in the MyFaces
>> implementation somehow.
>>
>> @Leonardo: did you actually provide a business-converter interface -
>> we discussed about this?
>>
>> best regards,
>>
>> Martin
>>
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