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Niall Pemberton commented on BEANUTILS-255:
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I've added/updated support for java.util.Date and java.util.Calendar - 99% of
the work is in the new DateTimeConverter implementation. I thought I do commit
then review, rather than other way round - since its easily reverted in SVN if
there are still objections.
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=471352
For java.util.Date and java.util.Calendar it can be configured to parse/format
dates in one of two ways:
1) Use the default SHORT date format, either for the default Locale or a
specified Locale
2) Use a set of Date "patterns" with which to try and parse the date
As Simon pointed out, this isn't going to work for an application that has to
deal with multiple Locales - but thats true for all of the "converters" package
- and the intention was for peole to use the "locale.converters" package for
that scenario. I think providing functionality for "single Locale" scenarios is
worth while though.
Also, its not just about conversion to and from Strings - these also provide
conversion between the different date types - which if BeanUtils is copying
properties and, for example, the source is a java.util.Calendar and target is
java.util.Date - then going via a String, which is what it would do currently
is really bad.
Finally, as I said before people can easily register/de-register converters -
so if they don't want the functionality, they don't have to have it.
> ConvertUtilsBean does not support converts to a java.util.Date
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> Key: BEANUTILS-255
> URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEANUTILS-255
> Project: Commons BeanUtils
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Henri Yandell
> Fix For: 1.8.0
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> It's impossible to convert a String to a java.util.Date (see commons-user
> mail thread 'Digester and using of java.util.Date').
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