On Friday, April 4, 2003, at 04:57 PM, Henri Yandell wrote:



On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, James Strachan wrote:


On Friday, April 4, 2003, at 04:04 PM, Joe Germuska wrote:

But what if I'm using some library that has its own conversion needs,
for example, in reading in an XML configuration file?   I guess most
conversions are pretty universal, volatile, but I can easily imagine
conflicting Converters for java.util.Date, for example.

Looking at Converters, why is there no UtilDateConverter? Or just DateConverter?

Also, why does said converter not take a DateFormat in some way to allow
instance users to be able to allow that to be configurable?


Possibly the Converter API needs an additional argument-list option?

So I can say:

converterBean.convert(java.util.Date.class, "02/02/02", "YY/DD/MM")

While we're at it, it could be useful to add a Locale to a ConverterUtilsBean so that converters can be locale-specific.


James
-------
http://radio.weblogs.com/0112098/


--------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]



Reply via email to