Re: [xwiki-users] Setting an object date property from a String.

21 Sep 2009

      Ok,

I ended up successfully setting my date parameter from a string 
combining velocity and groovy. Here is what I've done :

Created a Groovy class on a page named Project.DateParser :

/* Groovy Class : Date parser#* */

import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;

class DateParser {

  Date parse(toParse) {
    def formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
    return formatter.parse(toParse);

  }
}

/* *# */

Then I called it from my velocity script :

##Create an instance of my parser
#set($dateParser = $xwiki.parseGroovyFromPage("Project.DateParser"))
##Set the value from this parser calling its parse method
$releaseObj.set("startDate",$dateParser.parse($date))
##Save the doc
$releaseDoc.save()
##Write the saved property
${releaseObj.startDate}

Now it works really fine. I can edit my date parameters with Ajax and 
that's pretty cool stuff.

Jean

Jean Couteau a écrit :
...
Hi xwiki users,
I have a problem setting an object date property from a String.
The code I am doing is :
($startDate is a string I got from the request)
#if($context.getUser()!="XWiki.XWikiGuest")
  #set($releaseDoc=$xwiki.getDocument("Project.${releaseid}"))
  #set($releaseObj=$releaseDoc.getObject("XWiki.ReleaseClass"))
  $releaseObj.set("startDate",$datetool.toDate($startDate))
  $releaseDoc.save()
  ${releaseObj.startDate}
#else
  NoRight
#end
This piece of code is placed on the Skin Object and I call it using Ajax 
(I use an InPlaceEditor from scriptaculous)
What I got in result from this is NoRight if I am not connected but a 
wiki page with this template does not exist if i am logged in. I don't 
understand what is missing.
I tried using Groovy, but I got the Groovy code in response, it was not 
executed.
If someone can point out my error, I am all heard.
Thanks in advance
Jean
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