Hi, I'm trying to use the <tr:validateDateRestriction> component to restrict an input date to working days. So I set the invalidDaysOfWeek attribute to "sat sun". But then I get the following stack trace. (In fact I get this stack trace no matter what the contents of the string are.)
javax.faces.FacesException: Cannot find FacesContext. at com.sun.faces.application.ConverterPropertyEditorBase.setAsText(ConverterPropertyEditorBase.java:103) at com.sun.el.lang.ELSupport.coerceToType(ELSupport.java:377) at com.sun.el.ExpressionFactoryImpl.coerceToType(ExpressionFactoryImpl.java:66) at com.sun.facelets.tag.BeanPropertyTagRule$LiteralPropertyMetadata.applyMetadata(BeanPropertyTagRule.java:45) at com.sun.facelets.tag.MetadataImpl.applyMetadata(MetadataImpl.java:36) at com.sun.facelets.tag.MetaTagHandler.setAttributes(MetaTagHandler.java:62) at com.sun.facelets.tag.jsf.ValidateHandler.apply(ValidateHandler.java:98) at com.sun.facelets.tag.CompositeFaceletHandler.apply(CompositeFaceletHandler.java:47) at com.sun.facelets.tag.UserTagHandler.apply(UserTagHandler.java:122) at com.sun.facelets.impl.DefaultFaceletContext$TemplateManager.apply(DefaultFaceletContext.java:310) at com.sun.facelets.impl.DefaultFaceletContext.includeDefinition(DefaultFaceletContext.java:280) at com.sun.facelets.tag.ui.InsertHandler.apply(InsertHandler.java:68) at com.sun.facelets.tag.CompositeFaceletHandler.apply(CompositeFaceletHandler.java:47) at com.sun.facelets.tag.jsf.ComponentHandler.applyNextHandler(ComponentHandler.java:314) at com.sun.facelets.tag.jsf.ComponentHandler.apply(ComponentHandler.java:169) at com.sun.facelets.tag.ui.CompositionHandler.apply(CompositionHandler.java:119) at com.sun.facelets.compiler.NamespaceHandler.apply(NamespaceHandler.java:49) at com.sun.facelets.compiler.EncodingHandler.apply(EncodingHandler.java:25) at com.sun.facelets.impl.DefaultFacelet.include(DefaultFacelet.java:248) at com.sun.facelets.impl.DefaultFacelet.include(DefaultFacelet.java:294) at com.sun.facelets.impl.DefaultFaceletContext.includeFacelet(DefaultFaceletContext.java:241) at com.sun.facelets.tag.UserTagHandler.apply(UserTagHandler.java:98) at com.sun.facelets.tag.CompositeFaceletHandler.apply(CompositeFaceletHandler.java:47) at com.sun.facelets.tag.jsf.ComponentHandler.applyNextHandler(ComponentHandler.java:314) at com.sun.facelets.tag.jsf.ComponentHandler.apply(ComponentHandler.java:169) at com.sun.facelets.tag.jsf.ComponentHandler.applyNextHandler(ComponentHandler.java:314) at com.sun.facelets.tag.jsf.ComponentHandler.apply(ComponentHandler.java:169) at com.sun.facelets.tag.ui.DefineHandler.applyDefinition(DefineHandler.java:64) at com.sun.facelets.tag.ui.CompositionHandler.apply(CompositionHandler.java:131) at com.sun.facelets.impl.DefaultFaceletContext$TemplateManager.apply(DefaultFaceletContext.java:310) at com.sun.facelets.impl.DefaultFaceletContext.includeDefinition(DefaultFaceletContext.java:280) at com.sun.facelets.tag.ui.InsertHandler.apply(InsertHandler.java:68) at com.sun.facelets.tag.CompositeFaceletHandler.apply(CompositeFaceletHandler.java:47) at com.sun.facelets.tag.jsf.ComponentHandler.applyNextHandler(ComponentHandler.java:314) at com.sun.facelets.tag.jsf.ComponentHandler.apply(ComponentHandler.java:169) at com.sun.facelets.compiler.NamespaceHandler.apply(NamespaceHandler.java:49) at com.sun.facelets.tag.CompositeFaceletHandler.apply(CompositeFaceletHandler.java:47) at com.sun.facelets.compiler.EncodingHandler.apply(EncodingHandler.java:25) at com.sun.facelets.impl.DefaultFacelet.include(DefaultFacelet.java:248) at com.sun.facelets.impl.DefaultFacelet.include(DefaultFacelet.java:294) at com.sun.facelets.impl.DefaultFacelet.include(DefaultFacelet.java:273) at com.sun.facelets.impl.DefaultFaceletContext.includeFacelet(DefaultFaceletContext.java:144) at com.sun.facelets.tag.ui.CompositionHandler.apply(CompositionHandler.java:113) at com.sun.facelets.compiler.NamespaceHandler.apply(NamespaceHandler.java:49) at com.sun.facelets.compiler.EncodingHandler.apply(EncodingHandler.java:25) at com.sun.facelets.impl.DefaultFacelet.apply(DefaultFacelet.java:95) at com.sun.facelets.FaceletViewHandler.buildView(FaceletViewHandler.java:524) at com.sun.facelets.FaceletViewHandler.renderView(FaceletViewHandler.java:567) at javax.faces.application.ViewHandlerWrapper.renderView(ViewHandlerWrapper.java:48) at org.apache.myfaces.trinidadinternal.application.ViewHandlerImpl.renderView(ViewHandlerImpl.java:188) at org.apache.myfaces.lifecycle.RenderResponseExecutor.execute(RenderResponseExecutor.java:41) at org.apache.myfaces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.render(LifecycleImpl.java:140) at javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.service(FacesServlet.java:155) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.servletService(ApplicationFilterChain.java:411) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:317) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:198) at org.apache.myfaces.trinidadinternal.webapp.TrinidadFilterImpl._invokeDoFilter(TrinidadFilterImpl.java:238) at org.apache.myfaces.trinidadinternal.webapp.TrinidadFilterImpl._doFilterImpl(TrinidadFilterImpl.java:195) at org.apache.myfaces.trinidadinternal.webapp.TrinidadFilterImpl.doFilter(TrinidadFilterImpl.java:138) at org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.webapp.TrinidadFilter.doFilter(TrinidadFilter.java:92) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:230) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:198) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:288) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invokeInternal(StandardContextValve.java:271) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:202) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.doInvoke(StandardPipeline.java:632) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.doInvoke(StandardPipeline.java:577) at com.sun.enterprise.web.WebPipeline.invoke(WebPipeline.java:94) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:206) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.doInvoke(StandardPipeline.java:632) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.doInvoke(StandardPipeline.java:577) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:571) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:1080) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:150) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.doInvoke(StandardPipeline.java:632) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.doInvoke(StandardPipeline.java:577) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:571) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:1080) at org.apache.coyote.tomcat5.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:272) at com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.DefaultProcessorTask.invokeAdapter(DefaultProcessorTask.java:637) at com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.DefaultProcessorTask.doProcess(DefaultProcessorTask.java:568) at com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.DefaultProcessorTask.process(DefaultProcessorTask.java:813) at com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.DefaultReadTask.executeProcessorTask(DefaultReadTask.java:341) at com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.DefaultReadTask.doTask(DefaultReadTask.java:263) at com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.DefaultReadTask.doTask(DefaultReadTask.java:214) at com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.TaskBase.run(TaskBase.java:265) at com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.ssl.SSLWorkerThread.run(SSLWorkerThread.java:106) I saw the same behaviour with the <tr:validateDateTimeRange>, when I tried to set the minimum and maximum attributes with a literal string in the"yyyy-MM-dd"format. I worked around that by using an expression that evaluates to a java.util.Date. So I tried the same solution here, except that the expression now evaluates to a java.lang.String[] with the following contents: {"sat", "sun"}. When I do that, I don't get the exception and my page is rendered fine. But the validation is not working at all, I can still input dates that are on saturday or sunday. Am I doing something wrong, or should I file a bug? I'm using Trinidad 1.2.10, MyFaces core 1.2.4, Facelets 1.1.14 on a Glassfish v2 server. Best regards, Bart Kummel <http://www.bartkummel.net>