Does uniforms SchemaBridge supports the String Built-in Formats?

[rafaeltuelho]

It seems the JSONSchemaBridge does not support the string built-in formats [1] and [2]
Let's say my json schema define a property type as string but its format as date...

"Date": {
  "format": "date",
  "type": "string",
}

How can I tell uniforms to render that property as Date and not Text?

[1] https://json-schema.org/understanding-json-schema/reference/string.html#built-in-formats
[2] https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/json-schema-validation.html#rfc.section.7.3

[rafaeltuelho]

I see JSONSchemaBridge recognizes only date-time as field format
https://github.com/vazco/uniforms/blob/master/packages/uniforms-bridge-json-schema/src/JSONSchemaBridge.ts#L330

[radekmie]

Hi, @rafaeltuelho! As you already noticed, it does support date-time. The problem with date/time/datetime inputs is that there's no good HTML support across all browsers (Firefox and Safari were "behind"). However, the goal of uniforms was to provide themes that can handle all schemas, at least at a decent level (mind the difference: all of them as good as possible, not as many as possible ideally).

In the end, we ended up with datetime-local (source) to make it unified across themes. It's not ideal, but (mostly) works.

There are a lot of date and time pickers out there, and so we suggest creating custom fields using them, based on your theme and preference. And to make it "automatic", i.e., work with AutoField, all you need to do is to tell AutoField to use your custom field if the format is date (or anything else). It's here in the docs.

Having said all that... Safari 14.1 got released literally this week and supports all of these (link). Finally!

[rafaeltuelho]

    "uniforms": "^3.4.0",
    "uniforms-bridge-json-schema": "^3.4.0",
    "uniforms-bridge-simple-schema": "^3.4.0",
    "uniforms-patternfly": "^4.2.1",

[rafaeltuelho]

In this meanwhile, I'm trying to patch my raw JsonSchema (that I'm getting from an OpenAPI (swagger) document) to replace format: 'date' to format: 'date-time' before I pass it to the JsonSchemaBridge.

[radekmie]

Well, it's something that uniforms-patternfly have to catch up with - the AutoField of this theme is not using the new createAutoField helper as official themes do.

[rafaeltuelho]

Thanks to pointing that out @radekmie

[wtrocki]

@radekmie we will update this.

Thank you so much