Quoting Flavio Tordini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > hi craig, > thank you for your answer. i think the date formats to use are those in > ISO 8601. > > see: http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime > > maybe the converter could be added to the beanutils codebase but not > used by default by ConvertUtils. what do you think? >
That is one of at least twenty different formats for dates and times that people like to use (and would be pretty user-unfriendly in a locale that likes dd/mm/yyyy formatted dates). It doesn't seem reasonable to pick just one, so I'd prefer to let applications that want to use a particular format to register their own. > flavio Craig > > Craig R. McClanahan wrote: > > Quoting Flavio Tordini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > >>hi all, > >>i'm trying to set a bean property of type java.util.Date from a String > >>value. From the docs it appears that there's no default Converter to do > >>this. I understand I have to write my own Converter, but I'm sure that > >>someone else must have faced the problem before me. Can someone please > >>post the Converter? > >>It would be nice to have this Converter built in the BeanUtils package. > >>If I write my own should I post it back to this list? > >> > > > > > > The reason there isn't a standard Date converter is that the string format > of a > > date is locale specific (for example, dd/mm/yyyy versus mm/dd/yyyy), and > the > > basic converter utilities have no notion of locale. > > > > Within commons-beanutils, you could investigate using the locale-sensitive > > conversion utilities instead. > > > > > >>flavio > > > > > > Craig > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
