what he has as an example seems fine to me.
-igor
On 9/25/07, Eelco Hillenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On 9/23/07, Gerolf Seitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > i was wondering if we could provide the facilities to set a
> > DateFormat/-Pattern (to format the date in feedback messages) for
> > DateValidators?
> > the default format in a feedback message via toString() (like "Sun Sep
> 23
> > 23:59:55 CEST 2007") seems rather strange,
> > when the user needed to enter a date in a different format (which he
> > probably will).
> >
> > i was thinking of the following:
> >
> > add "DateValidator withDateFormat(DateFormat format)" and "DateValidator
> > withDatePattern(String pattern)" to DateValidator.
> > every DateValidator (Range, Minimum, Maximum) should add the variable
> values
> > like this:
> >
> > protected Map variablesMap(IValidatable validatable)
> > {
> > final Map map = super.variablesMap(validatable);
> > map.put("maximum", formatDate(maximum)); // use
> formatDate(Date)
> > return map;
> > }
> >
> > the formatDate method either uses the provided dateformat to format the
> date
> > or otherwise (in case no dateformat/patter was provided) just returns
> the
> > result of the toString() method.
> >
> > so, wdyt?
>
> Not sure, though I have a hunch Igor has an idea how this should be
> done without a new API.
>
> Eelco
>
