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
{
					try
					{
						
						paramValueObj = ParameterValidationUtil.validate(
								parameter.getDataType( ), parameter
										.getPattern( ), paramValueObj
										.toString( ), locale );
					}
					catch ( ValidationValueException e1 )
					{
						
						paramValueObj = ParameterValidationUtil
								.validate(
										parameter.getDataType( ),
										ParameterValidationUtil.DEFAULT_DATETIME_FORMAT,
										paramValueObj.toString( ) );
					}
					params.put( paramName, paramValueObj );
				}
				catch ( ValidationValueException e )
				{
					
					if ( ParameterAccessor.SERVLET_PATH_RUN
							.equalsIgnoreCase( request.getServletPath( ) ) )
					{
						this.exception = e;
						break;
					}
				}