This may open a can of worms, but I've refactored the defaults for the
Date element to allow the string "today" to correspond to DateTime->today().
This seemed like a sensible option to allow -- though i know one could
go overboard with textual representations.
See attachment.
-Brian
=== lib/HTML/FormFu/Element/Date.pm
==================================================================
--- lib/HTML/FormFu/Element/Date.pm (revision 29417)
+++ lib/HTML/FormFu/Element/Date.pm (local)
@@ -109,22 +109,21 @@
my $default = $self->default;
if ( defined $default ) {
+ my $is_blessed = blessed( $default );
- if ( blessed($default) && $default->isa('DateTime') ) {
- $self->day->{default} = $default->day;
- $self->month->{default} = $default->month;
- $self->year->{default} = $default->year;
+ if( "$default" eq 'today' ) { # $default needs stringification
+ $default = DateTime->today;
}
- else {
+ elsif ( !$is_blessed || ( $is_blessed && !$default->isa('DateTime') ) ) {
my $builder = DateTime::Format::Builder->new;
$builder->parser( { strptime => $self->strftime } );
- my $dt = $builder->parse_datetime($default);
-
- $self->day->{default} = $dt->day;
- $self->month->{default} = $dt->month;
- $self->year->{default} = $dt->year;
+ $default = $builder->parse_datetime($default);
}
+
+ $self->day->{default} = $default->day;
+ $self->month->{default} = $default->month;
+ $self->year->{default} = $default->year;
}
return;
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