Question

I want to replace the default Grails datePicker with the jQuery UI one. Is there an easy way to accomplish this? I get the popup onto the page but the data binding to the domain seems to be a pain (the easiest way is to do something like described here: http://www.intelligrape.com/blog/2011/12/29/grails-custom-data-binding-in-3-simple-steps/ but I’m looking for a simpler solution like a plugin which provides a tag).

I looked at Grails UI and Rich UI plugins but their date pickers are crappy (one has time fields outside the popup and the outer one has an icon and a close button… I really want the jQuery UI popup).

Answer 1

The easiest way (for me) is to do data binding like this:

def authorInstance = new Author()
bindData(authorInstance, params, [exclude: 'dateOfBirth'])
bindData(authorInstance, ['dateOfBirth': params.date('dateOfBirth', ['dd-MMM-yyyy'])], [include: 'dateOfBirth'])

So I can use any date/time picker I like, just change the date format in the last line (this date format can be specified in messages.properties to make that line a bit shorter).