Question

I am using the Play! framework, version 1. I have a form with 3 different select elements for day, month and year. I want to bind these to the birth date of a user (public Date birthDate defined in class User). How can I do this? Thanks.

Answer 1

You can create three setters getters in your class for day, month and year and update your date with these values. The best way to do that is to use joda date classes

public class MyClass {
    public DateMidnight birthDate;

    public int getBirthDateYear() {
        return birthDate.getYear();
    }
    public void setBirthDateYear(int year) {
        birthDate = birthDate.withYear(year);
    }
}

and same thing with “monthOfYear” and “dayOfMonth”