Simple customization bean for dates in dynamic view panel

Question

I need to write a simple customization bean for a dynamic view panel so dates will always be displayed as yyyy-MM-dd but I have no clue which method to overwrite and how to modify my value so it shows what I want.

Any starter code would be apprciated (and yes, I looked at Jesse's code and it is way too complex for what I want to achieve).

Thanks

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Edit: This now the code I have in my customization bean, but it does absolutely nothing...

public class DynamicViewCustomizerBean_Ben extends DominoViewCustomizer {

    public static class ExtendedViewColumnConverter extends ViewColumnConverter {
        @Override
        public String getValueAsString(final FacesContext context, final UIComponent component, final Object value) {
            if(value instanceof DateTime) {
                SimpleDateFormat fmt = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss");
                return fmt.format(value);
            }
            if(value instanceof Date) {
                SimpleDateFormat fmt = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
                return fmt.format(value);
            }

            // for other cases, just return super
            return super.getValueAsString(context, component, value);
        }
    }
}

And yes, the name of my customization bean is set properly on my Dynamic view panel:

<xe:dynamicViewPanel id="dynamicViewPanel1"
    showColumnHeader="true"
    customizerBean="com.videotron.xpages.DynamicViewCustomizerBean_Ben"
    var="rowData">
...

Am I missing something? Is it the good event that is being overridden? I'm asking because if I set a value of "test" instead of the fmt.format(), it doesn't even show up. Nothing in the logs, no visible errors... I can't seem to find a working example of this on the web...

Answer 1

In the ExtendedViewColumnConverter.getValueAsString(FacesContext, UIComponent, Object) method of your customizer bean you need to return the desired value if the value object is a Date instance.

Here's a simple example:

if (value instanceof Date) {
    DateFormat fmt = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
    return fmt.format(value);
}