Datepicker value to controller not matching

[Joachim]

Hi guys,

I've setup a datepicker, it's showing the selected date properly but I'm having a hard time in sending it towards my controller in the same format it's showing. For some reason it seems to be reverting back from dd/MM/yyyy to MM/dd/yyyy.

Below my script used.

01.<script>
02.    var datepicker;
03.    $(document).ready(function () {
04.        datepicker = $("#datepicker").data("kendoDatePicker");
05.
06.        $("#btnToReport").click(function () {
07.            $.post("/ShiftReport/ViewReport?datepicker=" + datepicker.value().toLocaleString(), function (data, status) {
08.                if (status === "success") {
09.                    $("#main-content").html(data);
10.
11.                }
12.            });
13.        });
14.    });
15.</script>

[Joachim]

Slap on forehead,

I had setup my controller to accept a DateTime parameter. I changed this to accept a string (makes more sense) this allowed me to just parse the string into a DateTime in the format I needed to continue working with it.

1.var mainDate = DateTime.ParseExact(requestedDate, "dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss",null);

Still if someone would have a solution to still send in a DateTime towards the controller straight away in the format I'm looking for, always nice to see how that would be done.

 

 

 

[Daniel]

Hi,

The default model binder uses the invariant culture formats to parse the value when it is sent in the query string. So in order for the value to be bound, you should either format the query string value in the expected format:

"/ShiftReport/ViewReport?datepicker=" + kendo.toString(datepicker.value(), "MM/dd/yyyy")

or implement a custom model binder for the DateTime type that parses the values based on the needed format.

Regards,
Daniel
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