I don't think that this feature should be part of the core displaytag.
This is where the various string formatting utilities come into play. I'd
envision something like this:
<display:column property="mydate">
<display:format type="date" arg="YYYY-MM-DD">
<bean:write name="mydate"/>
</display:format>
</display:column>
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> Feature Requests item #683989, was opened at 2003-02-10 17:19
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> Status: Open
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> Priority: 5
> Submitted By: Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen (ravn)
> Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
> Summary: <display:column format="dd-MMM-yyyy"> needed for date propt
>
> Initial Comment:
> We have a need for providing a formatstring for dates
> as the default is not good enough.
>
> I have a patch, which I am testing out. If there is
> interest I can upload it.
>
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> Comment By: Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen (ravn)
> Date: 2003-11-04 21:32
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> Have you timed this? My experiments with this approach
> showed a substantional slowdown as noted earlier.
>
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> Comment By: Tim Golden (luckynh)
> Date: 2003-10-27 22:34
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> use a custom decorator:
>
> /*
> * <p>Simple Date Format</p>
> * @author luckynh
> * @version 1.0 $Revision: .0 $ ($Author: luckynh $)
> */
> use a custom decorator:
>
> import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
> import java.util.Date;
> import org.apache.taglibs.display.ColumnDecorator;
>
> public class ShortDateWrapper extends ColumnDecorator
> {
> private SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(
> "MM/dd/yyyy" );
>
> public String decorate( Object columnValue )
> {
> Date t = (Date)columnValue;
> return sdf.format( t );
> }
> }
>
>
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> Comment By: Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen (ravn)
> Date: 2003-08-11 14:38
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> I have now taken the time to merge the changes with the
> latest source from CVS, and submit patch 786617.
>
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> Comment By: Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen (ravn)
> Date: 2003-08-07 13:37
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> I have now tried to upgrade my old source tree to be in
> synch with the SF CVS, but Eclipse has some problems with
> this. When this is resolved, I will submit my patch which
> is in production use here.
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> Comment By: Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen (ravn)
> Date: 2003-03-13 22:11
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> I have found that the Wrapper system is noticably slower
> than just overriding the toString method. Unfortunately, I
> cannot do this in our scenario (objects come from JDBC).
>
> I hope to have time to prepare the patch this week.
>
>
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> Comment By: Didier Dubois (didier_dubois)
> Date: 2003-03-06 10:41
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> I resolved the problem doing the following step:
> - using a patch similar to the one posted by scottnsmith.
> This allow null Date comparison
> - Using a bean returning a "Date" object (which is correctly
> compared by Java)
> - Using a DateWrapper for this column that returns the
> formated Date as a String.
>
> HTH.
>
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> Comment By: Didier Dubois (didier_dubois)
> Date: 2003-03-05 17:29
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> YES!
>
> I have the same problem. But further more I need to sort my
> table on this date. Do your pathc support this?
>
> Didier
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> Comment By: Matt Raible (mraible)
> Date: 2003-02-14 14:51
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> I've subclassed Date and overridden the toString() method as
> a workaround. I agreet that adding a format attribute is
> probably a better solution. Please submit your patch.
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