Bug 147558 Passing date parameters to drill-through reports
Due to the date/time format, I can't pass a date parameter to a drill-through report. The date/time input requires that the user enters the date in a very specific format otherwise, the viewer does not recognize it as a valid date. Therefore, I set my text box to be have the date/time format 'dd-MMM-yyyy HH:mm' which is user-friendly. When I bind the param to the drill-through report, it passes 'Jan 1, 20006 22:33' or something in that order. Then the report that was being called returns that it is not a valid date. There is no function to format a date object to a specific format (or that I could find).
viewer/org.eclipse.birt.report.viewer/birt/WEB-INF/classes/org/eclipse/birt/report/context/ViewerAttributeBean.java
this.parametersAsString = getParsedParametersAsStringWithDefaultValue(
				this.parametersAsString, request, options );
		
		this.parameters = (HashMap) getParsedParameters(
				this.reportDesignHandle, parameterList, request, options );
	}
	/**
	 * parse paramenters from config file.
	 * 
	 * @param request
	 *            HttpServletRequest
	 * @return
	 */
	protected void parseConfigVars( HttpServletRequest request,
			Collection parameterList )
	{
		this.configMap = new HashMap( );
		
		String reportConfigName = ParameterAccessor
				.getConfigFileName( this.reportDesignName );
		if ( reportConfigName == null )
			return;
		
		SessionHandle sessionHandle = DesignEngine.newSession( ULocale.US );
		ReportDesignHandle handle = null;
		try
		{
			
			handle = sessionHandle.openDesign( reportConfigName );