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/utility/ParameterAccessor.java
* @param parameterName
	 *            parameter name in UTF-8 format
	 * @return
	 */
	public static String getParameter( HttpServletRequest request,
			String parameterName )
	{
		return getParameter( request, parameterName, true );
	}
	/**
	 * Get named parameter from http request. parameter names and values are all
	 * in iso-8859-1 format in request.
	 * 
	 * @param request
	 *            incoming http request
	 * @param parameterName
	 *            parameter name
	 * @param isUTF
	 *            is parameter in UTF-8 formator not
	 * @return
	 */
	protected static String getParameter( HttpServletRequest request,
			String parameterName, boolean isUTF )
	{
		String ISOParameterName = ( isUTF )
				? toISOString( parameterName )
				: parameterName;
		String value = request.getParameter( ISOParameterName );
		String encoding = request.getCharacterEncoding( );
		return toUTFString( value, encoding );