+1!

I've just read the documentation and it's clear and elegant. Great job!
Really looking forward to seeing it integrated!
It's a very nice and needed addition to the GDK :-)

Guillaume


On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 6:03 AM, Paul King <pa...@asert.com.au> wrote:

> Looks good at first glance. Please go ahead with the PR.
>
> On 18 Mar. 2018 5:37 am, "Joe Wolf" <joew...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Here's a first stab at the documentation for the Date/Time API
>> extensions: http://bdkosher.github.io/groovy-3.0-alpha/html5
>> /#_working_with_date_time_types
>>
>> And in writing the documentation (as with writing unit tests), I got
>> feedback, prompting some minor changes:
>>
>> 1) using the DateTimeFormatter.ISO* formatters for implementing
>> getDateString(), getTimeString(), and getDateTimeString() instead of
>> using a localized FormatStyle.SHORT style. Besides making it easier to
>> document examples, I personally prefer "2018-03-17" to "3/17/18", even as
>> an American.
>>
>> 2) changing the behavior of the upto method (and downto) so that, when
>> using a custom unit of iteration that prevents the start value from being
>> incremented exactly to the end value, the method returns as soon as the
>> current value becomes strictly later than the end value. In my first stab
>> at it, the method returned when the current iteration value became later
>> than the end value _by at least one unit_. As a result, the closure could
>> be called with a value later than the end parameter, which seemed
>> undesirable. e.g.
>>
>> def from = LocalDate.of(2018, Month.MARCH, 1)
>> def to =   LocalDate.of(2018, Month.MARCH, 2)
>>
>> from.upto(to, ChronoUnit.MONTH) { date -> // iterate by one month at a
>> time
>>     println date
>> }
>>
>> would print
>>
>> 2018-03-01
>> 2018-04-01
>>
>> This was because April 1st is less than a month after March 2nd: 
>> march2nd.until(april1st,
>> ChronoUnit.MONTH) == 0, as explained in the docs
>> https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/time/tem
>> poral/Temporal.html#until-java.time.temporal.Temporal-java.
>> time.temporal.TemporalUnit-
>>
>> Anyways, the updated GDK docs are here, temporarily: http://bdkosher.g
>> ithub.io/groovy-3.0-alpha/groovy-jdk/
>>
>> Barring any substantial disagreement with inclusions or exclusions, I can
>> submit a PR and where we can discuss any minor implementation or
>> documentation details.
>>
>> -Joe
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 11:26 AM, Guillaume Laforge <glafo...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Sounds awesome!
>>> Anyhow, I already like what I see, those methods sound very useful to me!
>>>
>>> On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 4:37 PM, Joe Wolf <joew...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Good idea--I should have thought of that earlier! I'll draft up some
>>>> documentation in a new section of the core-gdk.adoc file and post a link
>>>> for review.
>>>>
>>>> -Joe
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 4:50 AM, Guillaume Laforge <glafo...@gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> This looks very complete, at first sight, that's really wonderful!
>>>>> I'm really looking forward to seeing that integrated.
>>>>>
>>>>> Did you also have a pointer to a doc / page / blog which shows those
>>>>> methods in action?
>>>>> (which we could potentially add to our online documentation)
>>>>>
>>>>> Guillaume
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 12:16 AM, Joe Wolf <joew...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I've finally gotten around to adding extension methods to the Groovy
>>>>>> JDK for the java.time types. See https://issues.apache.org/
>>>>>> jira/browse/GROOVY-8334 for reference.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've generated a copy of the Groovy JDK apidocs with my current
>>>>>> changes here: http://bdkosher.github.io/groovy-3.0-alpha/groovy-jdk/
>>>>>> <http://bdkosher.github.io/groovy-3.0-alpha/groovy-jdk/>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The additions are in the java.time and java.time.temporal packages,
>>>>>> obviously, as well as some "since 3.0" methods in java.util.Date and
>>>>>> java.util.Calendar
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I thought it was worthwhile to open up these API changes for
>>>>>> discussion here before submitting a PR. There may be things included 
>>>>>> which
>>>>>> should not be or things not included that should.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -Joe
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Guillaume Laforge
>>>>> Apache Groovy committer & PMC Vice-President
>>>>> Developer Advocate @ Google Cloud Platform
>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Guillaume Laforge
>>> Apache Groovy committer & PMC Vice-President
>>> Developer Advocate @ Google Cloud Platform
>>>
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>>
>>


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