Biblatex dates like "19uu" not saved.

[wujastyk]

JabRef 4.1-dev--snapshot--2017-12-03--master--56aa71671
Linux 4.10.0-40-generic amd64
Java 1.8.0_151

The "Date" field will not accept a Biblatex-legal date of the form "19uu". One can enter the date, but on moving the cursor to another field, the date is erased.

[Siedlerchr]

There is also an issue for planning the support/integrity check of all dates #2753

[Siedlerchr]

For the moment we need to decouple the date picker from the field

[Siedlerchr]

I looked into the code and the problem is that there is a StringConverter, which tries to convert to a date or TemporalAcessor. Of course for the above kind of dates this is not possible and therefore results in null
DateEditorViewModel

jabref/src/main/java/org/jabref/gui/fieldeditors/DateEditorViewModel.java

Line 41 in f0b90ba

return Date.parse(string).map(Date::toTemporalAccessor).orElse(null);

[tobiasdiez]

So as soon as #2753 is implemented, this should work automatically, right? I remove this from the 4.1 milestone as a fix seems to be a longer story.

[Siedlerchr]

Could we as a workaround just return the original date if parsing was not successful?

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[buhtz]

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