Date comparison in velocity validator

[hin3x]

Hello,

I am trying to use a velocity expression to make sure that a certain date falls after the current date. I have gone trough the documentation that I could find (http://www.smartclient.com/smartgwte...tySupport.html and http://www.smartclient.com/smartgwte...erverCondition) but found nothing that could help me in the area of type conversion (string to date) or date comparison (compare two dates and determine the current date in some way).

I tried the following ($value yields a string value):

$value<=$date.calendar

(was not working - syntax error - I expect because the $date utility is not known in the velocity scope)

and also desperatly:

$value.date.compareTo('2011-08-12 00:00:00')<=0

(Lexical error)

I would greatly appreciate any reference to a sample or piece of documentation to get this working.

for your reference, the full validator XML looks like this:

<validator stopIfFalse="false" stopOnError="false" type="serverCustom" validateOnChange="true">
<serverCondition><![CDATA[$value.compareTo('2011-08-12 00:00:00')<=0']]></serverCondition>
<errorMessage>An unexpected error occured: The incident date must be a future date.</errorMessage>
</validator>

We are on the latest 2.5 build.


thanks a lot in advance.

[Isomorphic]

$value will be a date if the field is declared as type "date". As with Java, call getTime() on each Date and compare that.

[hin3x]

I see, sadly our date values are represented as String internally. I created a custom validator to cover this, thanks for the feedback!