Use raw values, not display text, for Entity property values

collect_app/src/androidTest/java/org/odk/collect/android/feature/formentry/EntityFormTest.kt

@@ -23,6 +23,22 @@ class EntityFormTest {
     val ruleChain: RuleChain = TestRuleChain.chain(testDependencies)
         .around(rule)
 
+    @Test
+    fun fillingEntityRegistrationForm_createsEntityWithValuesTreatedAsOpaqueStrings() {
+        testDependencies.server.addForm("entities-with-dates-registration.xml")
+        testDependencies.server.addForm("entities-with-dates-follow-up.xml")
+
+        rule.withMatchExactlyProject(testDependencies.server.url)
+            .startBlankForm("Entities With Dates Registration")
+            .swipeToEndScreen()
+            .clickFinalize()
+
+            .startBlankForm("Entities With Dates Follow Up")
+            // .assertText("2024-11-15")
+            .swipeToNextQuestion("Select date")
+            .assertText("2024-11-15")
+    }
+
     @Test
     fun fillingEntityRegistrationForm_createsEntityForFollowUpForms() {
         testDependencies.server.addForm("one-question-entity-registration.xml")

entities/src/main/java/org/odk/collect/entities/javarosa/finalization/EntityFormFinalizationProcessor.java

@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ private FormEntity createEntity(TreeElement entityElement, String dataset, List<
             IAnswerData answerData = mainInstance.resolveReference(reference).getValue();
 
             if (answerData != null) {
-                return new Pair<>(saveTo.getSecond(), answerData.getDisplayText());
+                return new Pair<>(saveTo.getSecond(), answerData.uncast().getString());
             } else {
                 return new Pair<>(saveTo.getSecond(), "");
             }

entities/src/main/java/org/odk/collect/entities/javarosa/spec/EntityFormParser.java

@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ public static String parseLabel(TreeElement entity) {
             IAnswerData labelValue = labelElement.getValue();
 
             if (labelValue != null) {
-                return String.valueOf(labelValue.getValue());
+                return labelValue.uncast().getString();
             } else {
                 return null;
             }

test-forms/src/main/resources/forms/entities-with-dates-follow-up.xml

@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<h:html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2002/xforms" xmlns:ev="http://www.w3.org/2001/xml-events" xmlns:h="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:jr="http://openrosa.org/javarosa" xmlns:odk="http://www.opendatakit.org/xforms" xmlns:orx="http://openrosa.org/xforms" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:entities="http://www.opendatakit.org/xforms/entities">
+    <h:head>
+        <h:title>Entities With Dates Follow Up</h:title>
+        <model odk:xforms-version="1.0.0" entities:entities-version="2024.1.0">
+            <instance>
+                <data id="entities-with-dates-follow_up" version="1">
+                    <label/>
+                    <date/>
+                    <meta>
+                        <instanceID/>
+                    </meta>
+                </data>
+            </instance>
+
+            <instance id="dates" src="jr://file-csv/dates.csv"/>
+
+            <bind nodeset="/data/label" type="string"/>
+            <bind nodeset="/data/date" type="string"/>
+            <bind jr:preload="uid" nodeset="/data/meta/instanceID" readonly="true()" type="string"/>
+        </model>
+    </h:head>
+    <h:body>
+        <select1 ref="/data/label">
+            <label>Select label</label>
+            <itemset nodeset="instance('dates')/root/item">
+                <value ref="name"/>
+                <label ref="label"/>
+            </itemset>
+        </select1>
+        <select1 ref="/data/date">
+            <label>Select date</label>
+            <itemset nodeset="instance('dates')/root/item">
+                <value ref="name"/>
+                <label ref="date"/>
+            </itemset>
+        </select1>
+    </h:body>
+</h:html>

test-forms/src/main/resources/forms/entities-with-dates-registration.xml

@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<h:html
+	xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2002/xforms"
+	xmlns:h="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
+	xmlns:ev="http://www.w3.org/2001/xml-events"
+	xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
+	xmlns:jr="http://openrosa.org/javarosa"
+	xmlns:orx="http://openrosa.org/xforms"
+	xmlns:odk="http://www.opendatakit.org/xforms"
+	xmlns:entities="http://www.opendatakit.org/xforms/entities">
+	<h:head>
+		<h:title>Entities With Dates Registration</h:title>
+		<model odk:xforms-version="1.0.0" entities:entities-version="2024.1.0">
+			<itext>
+				<translation lang="English">
+					<text id="/data/date:label">
+						<value>Select date</value>
+					</text>
+				</translation>
+			</itext>
+			<instance>
+				<data id="entities-with-dates-registration">
+					<date>2024-11-15</date>
+					<meta>
+						<instanceID/>
+						<entity dataset="dates" id="" create="1">
+							<label/>
+						</entity>
+					</meta>
+				</data>
+			</instance>
+			<bind nodeset="/data/date" type="date" entities:saveto="date"/>
+			<bind nodeset="/data/meta/instanceID" type="string" readonly="true()" jr:preload="uid"/>
+			<bind nodeset="/data/meta/entity/@id" type="string" readonly="true()"/>
+			<setvalue ref="/data/meta/entity/@id" event="odk-instance-first-load" type="string" readonly="true()" value="uuid()"/>
+			<bind nodeset="/data/meta/entity/label" calculate=" /data/date " type="string" readonly="true()"/>
+		</model>
+	</h:head>
+	<h:body>
+		<input ref="/data/date">
+			<label ref="jr:itext('/data/date:label')"/>
+		</input>
+	</h:body>
+</h:html>