Validation error message is not displaying if user enter wrong date.

[vnathank]

Hi,
We are using Smart Gwt-4.1p (23rd May 2014)
Browser: IE10, 11, Google Chrome:37.0.2062.124 m

Please find the attached code for your reference.

Issue : If user enter the the invalid date (invalid digit) for DateItem date is getting converted to corresponding date.
Ex : 02/25/20154456677 is displaying as 01/01/1970
Expected behavior : It should display message as invalid date.

I am using DateUtil for localization issue like /(slash) is converted to .(dot) in german language.

Please guide me if any solution is available to display error message using date util.

Thanks.

[Isomorphic]

You probably want DateItem.setEnforceDate(true)

[vnathank]

Yes, But DateItem.setEnforceDate(true) already handle but not working.You can check my code for your reference.

[Isomorphic]

If you prefer that the user is informed of a validation error instead of auto-correction of the date to the most likely thing the user was trying to input:

1. set enforceDate(false)

2. fix your parser so that it does not just return today's date if it can't parse the date (as it currently does)

[vnathank]

I set the properities setEnforceDate(false).
In parser it is going to try block and returning converted corresponding date. I am getting same behavior.

[Isomorphic]

We're not following what you think is a framework bug here.

You have installed a parser that will return "currentDate" which contains the value "new Date()" if the user inputs something that can't be parsed as a date.

So that's why you get the behavior you do. Just fix your parser, or get rid of it entirely, since it's actually just worse than what the framework will do by default.

[vnathank]

Thanks for your reply.
1. I observe that because of below code invalid date is converted to corresponding date.
DateTimeFormat format = DateTimeFormat.getFormat(DATE_FORMAT);
return format.parse(dateString);

2. But if i am not using below code I am getting issue in german language.If user enter wrong date again enter correct date then error message is still displaying. In other language it is working fine.

DateUtil.setDateParser(new DateParser()
{
public Date parse(String dateString)
{
try{
if(dateString != null){
final DateTimeFormat format = DateTimeFormat.getFormat(DATE_FORMAT);
return format.parse(dateString);
}
}catch(Exception e){
e.printStackTrace();
}
return null;
}
});

[Isomorphic]

We do not observe such a problem with default settings in the German locale.

If you think there's a framework problem here, try running your code, without any attempt to change default settings on DateUtil, in the German locale, in an unmodified SDK.

If you still experience a problem in this scenario, show your complete code, and describe in detail how exactly the problem can be reproduced.

Be exact: do not just say "enter wrong date again enter correct date" or similar wording - describe how focus leaves and re-enters the field (if it does so via click, keystroke, etc), and please make an attempt to use punctuation for clarity.

[vnathank]

Thank you for reply.