[castor-dev] Castor XML DateFieldHandler does not handle locales correctly

[David C. Browne]

The pattern characters used by java.text.SimpleDateFormat are locale specific, retrieved from java.text.DateFormatSymbols.localPatternChars. So while a pattern string such as "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss" is perfectly fine for a default locale such as en_US, it barfs when used with a default locale such as ar_JO.
There are a couple of these hard-coded patterns in org.exolab.castor.xml.handlers.DateFieldHandler. To fix the problem, you either need to create a locale-based version of these pattern strings, or pass a en_US locale (or other one where those strings work) as the second argument to the SimpleDateFormat() constructor instead of relying on the default locale.

Or is there some global locale issue about Castor XML that I am missing?

Thanks,
David Browne

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