PrimeFaces calendar accepts invalid dates as input

Question

The problem I am having is with the PrimesFaces 3.4.1 calendar. When using the popup date picker activated either through the button or on input field focus you can only sel

Answer 1

In faces-config.xml add this

    localDateConverter
    com.utility.LocalDateConverter

In the above class i.e LocaldateConverter add this below code

/**
 * @param facesContext .
 * @param uiComponent .
 * @param input .
 * @return Object .
 */
@Override
public Object getAsObject(final FacesContext facesContext, final UIComponent   uiComponent, final String input) {
    if (StringUtils.isBlank(input)) {
        return null;
    }
    final String componentPattern = (String) uiComponent.getAttributes().get("datePattern");
    final String patternToUse = componentPattern != null ? componentPattern : CommonConstants.OUTPUT_DATE_FORMAT;
    try {
        final DateFormat fmt = new SimpleDateFormat(patternToUse);
        Date convertedDate = new java.sql.Date(fmt.parse(input).getTime());
        return convertedDate;
    } catch (Exception e) {
        throw new ConverterException(new FacesMessage(FacesMessage.SEVERITY_ERROR, "Invalid Date Format", null));
    }
}

/**
 * @param facesContext .
 * @param uiComponent .
 * @param obj .
 * @return String .
 */
@Override
public String getAsString(final FacesContext facesContext, final UIComponent uiComponent, final Object obj) {
    if (obj==null) {
        return null;
    }
    final Date date = (Date) obj;
    return date.toString();
}