I have a custom salesforce object with a Date field. I am creating a new object of this type in a Lightning component, and trying to push this to the server.
The objects are stored in a component attribute:
<aura:attribute name="objectsToInsert" type="Object__c[]"/>
Which is acted on by the controller method:
cmp.set("v.objectsToInsert", objectsToInsert);
helper.insertObjects(cmp, cmp.get("v.objectsToInsert"));
When the attribute is set, the date field has already been set. It is set as a string in the format "YYYY-MM-DD" as shown below.
helper.insertObjects() includes:
var insertAction = cmp.get("c.insertObjects");
insertAction.setParam("objects", objects);
console.log("entries: " + JSON.stringify(objects));
The log statement there shows a date field
"Day__c":"2016-12-07"
Outputting the passed objects in the controller like this
@AuraEnabled
public static void insertObjects(List<Object__c> objects) {
System.debug(objects);
}
The debug statement here shows the field as
Day__c=null
I have tried looking at other answers that were getting errors with Date fields, but can't find any solution or other examples of where the value just gets nulled. How do I fix this?
UPDATE ON SOLUTIONS: The accepted answer below describes a very simple workaround which will probably be sufficient. For others who would rather not use this method, the field containing the Date (Day__c) comes out of the serialiser with a value of Day__c=2016-12-09 00:00:00, i.e. it has a (zero'd out) time string, which may be necessary for apex to understand the data coming from Lightning.
