[Catalyst] Changing format of date field

[Adam Witney]

On 6. 1. 2014 21:41, Bill Moseley wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 7:18 AM, Adam Witney <awitney at sgul.ac.uk
> <mailto:awitney at sgul.ac.uk>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     I have a date field in a DBIx::Class Result class using
>     InflateColumn::DateTime. When I pass this through a Catalyst/TT
>     application, the date is presented in YYYY-MM-DD format.
>
>     I can modify this to DD/MM/YYYY in my TT template with
>     object.dmy('/'), but I would prefer to change the default DateTime
>     stringification, however I am not quite sure where or how to do this?
>
>     Any ideas greatly appreciated.
>
>
> Seem like formatting in the template is the right place -- may want to
> have different formats in different places in your app.   Then you might
> also think about how best to localize.
>
> One idea is to localize a set of names for a set of formats:
>
> [% dt_fmt = c.localize( '_DT_DATE_ONLY' );
> foo.some_dt_object.strftime(  dt_fmt ) | html %]
>
>
> I have also used a function that does the above, but also clones and
> sets the time zone and locale based on the user's preferences:
>
> [% user_time( foo.event_start, '_DT_TIMESTAMP_WITH_ZONE' ) | html %]

Hi Bill,

Thanks for your email. I agree that the template seems like a good place 
for this, but to give a little extra detail.

I have a form that is used for both object create and editing. When I 
edit an object I have this in my controller:

$c->stash(formdata => $object);

and in the template:

<input name="datefield" type="text" value="[% 
formdata.datefield.dmy('/') %]" />

But when creating a new object, if the form validation fails I pass the 
form data back to the form like so:

$c->stash( formdata => $c->request->params );

But now the datefield is a text string and formdata.datefield.dmy('/') 
prints blank.

I was thinking that if I could define my DateTime stringification to my 
required format centrally then I could just use this in the template

<input name="datefield" type="text" value="[% formdata.datefield %]" />

and both scenarios would be happy.

Is the only way to do this to put more code in the template?

Thanks again for your help

Adam