wheel.components
Class DateInput

java.lang.Object
  wheel.components.Component
      wheel.components.RenderableComponent
          wheel.components.FormElement
              wheel.components.DateInput

public class DateInput
extends FormElement

A form element that can be used for handling Dates and Calendars. Uses java.text.SimpleDateFormat internally to convert from String expressions to Date/Calendar instances. The date pattern must use the same syntax as described in SimpleDateFormat.

Author:

Henri Frilund

See Also:

SimpleDateFormat

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class wheel.components.FormElement

genericFieldErrorMessage, value

Method Summary

java.lang.String	_applyFormat(java.lang.Object value) By overriding this method, its possible to apply some formatting to MVEL-evaluations in the eval() method.
void	_setSubmitValue(java.lang.String[] value) Sets the value retrieved from a form submit for this element.
java.lang.String	defaultTagName() Subclasses must implement this.
void	renderComponent(org.xmlpull.v1.XmlSerializer serializer) Default implementation that will render all renderable child components that this component has.

Methods inherited from class wheel.components.FormElement

_clear, _getSubmitValue, _getSubmitValues, _render, addValidationError, defaultDomEvent, fieldBinding, getBinding, getErrors, getFormElementName, initialFieldValue, initialFieldValue, isEmpty, isInt, isValid, label, required, setBinding, setFormElementName, validate, validationRule, validationRule, value

Methods inherited from class wheel.components.RenderableComponent

_classReferenceFromHints, _getRenderAfterMe, _getRenderBeforeMe, _renderActions, _renderClassReferenceFromHints, _renderTagStart, _renderXhtmlAttributes, addRenderAfter, addRenderBefore, config, getTagName, toString

Methods inherited from class wheel.components.Component

_getAction, _getActions, _getChildren, _getForm, _getRenderableChildren, _getRenderHints, _getTopLevelComponent, _getVisibleForm, _getXhtmlAttributes, _isGeneratedId, _setComponentId, _setGeneratedId, _wrapComponentId, a, a, abbr, abbr, acronym, acronym, action, actionBinding, actionBinding, add, addFirst, address, address, afterAdd, area, attribute, attributes, b, b, base, bdo, big, big, blockquote, br, button, caption, checkbox, checkboxGroup, cite, cite, clasS, col, colgroup, create, dateInput, dd, dd, del, del, dfn, dfn, div, dl, dt, dt, el, em, em, encode, entity, equals, eval, fieldset, fileInput, fileInput, find, findAll, form, form, frame, frameset, get, getComponentId, getComponentName, getComponents, getEngine, getPage, getParent, h1, h1, h2, h2, h3, h3, h4, h4, h5, h5, h6, h6, hashCode, head, hidden, hr, htmlText, i, i, id, iframe, img, ins, ins, kbd, kdb, label, label, legend, legend, li, li, link, link, map, message, message, meta, multiSelect, nbsp, noframes, noscript, numberInput, numberInput, object, ol, p, p, param, placeholder, pre, pre, q, q, radio, radioGroup, rawText, remove, remove, renderHint, requestFocus, s, s, samp, samp, script, select, selectModel, small, small, span, span, strike, strike, strong, strong, style, sub, sub, submit, sup, sup, table, tbody, td, text, textarea, textInput, tfoot, th, thead, title, tr, u, u, ul, up, up, var, var, wBlock, wrapSelf

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, finalize, getClass, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Method Detail

defaultTagName

public java.lang.String defaultTagName()

Description copied from class: RenderableComponent

Subclasses must implement this. If no xhtml tagname can be resolved from rendering hints, will default to value returned by this method.

Specified by:

defaultTagName in class RenderableComponent

Returns:

_setSubmitValue

public void _setSubmitValue(java.lang.String[] value)

Description copied from class: FormElement

Sets the value retrieved from a form submit for this element. Calling this method also triggers a call to validate();

Overrides:

_setSubmitValue in class FormElement

renderComponent

public void renderComponent(org.xmlpull.v1.XmlSerializer serializer)
                     throws java.io.IOException

Description copied from class: RenderableComponent

Default implementation that will render all renderable child components that this component has. Subclasses should override this method if necessary.

Overrides:

renderComponent in class RenderableComponent

Throws:

java.io.IOException

_applyFormat

public java.lang.String _applyFormat(java.lang.Object value)

Description copied from class: Component

By overriding this method, its possible to apply some formatting to MVEL-evaluations in the eval() method.

Overrides:

_applyFormat in class Component

Parameters:

value - The result of an MVEL-evaluation.

Returns:

A formattetd String based on the input Object.