ArgumentError: invalid date about validates_timeliness

[adzap]

Do you have the use_plugin_parser config option set to true?

[huug]

Thanks for helping!

I have set the use_plugin_parser config option to true and 'Invalid date' exception is gone.

The shim however still does not work, so the date is blanked out.

[adzap]

Do you mean the date is nil? If so, that is the intended behavior.

On 12/09/2011, at 8:30 PM, Hugues [email protected] wrote:

Ok, I have set the use_plugin_parser config option to true and 'Invalid date' exception is gone.
The shim however still does not work, so the date is blanked out.

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[huug]

Ok. But what about the 'shim' explained in the README?

Specifically, when you assign an invalid date/time value to an attribute, most ORM/ODMs will only store a nil value for the attribute. This causes an issue for date/time validation, since we need to know that a value was assigned but was invalid. To fix this, we need to cache the original invalid value to know that the attribute is not just nil.

[adzap]

It's is cached internally which is why you invalid date instead 'date cannot be empty' message. The plugin can tell when tried write a value to the attribute.

On 12/09/2011, at 11:28 PM, Hugues [email protected] wrote:

Ok. But what about the 'shim' explained in the README?

Specifically, when you assign an invalid date/time value to an attribute, most ORM/ODMs will only store a nil value for the attribute. This causes an issue for date/time validation, since we need to know that a value was assigned but was invalid. To fix this, we need to cache the original invalid value to know that the attribute is not just nil.

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[adzap]

I'm closing this since I think the issue is clear now. You would never want the invalid value to be returned from a the regular attribute method, it should always be the parsed value or nil from a failed parse. You can get the raw value using the _timeliness_raw_value_for(attr_name) method in mongoid. The ActiveRecord shim allows the <attr_name>_before_type_cast method for date/time attributes to get access to raw values.

[huug]

Ok, I think I misunderstood the part about the 'shim'. Thanks!