Justin Deoliveira ha scritto: > Its always one thing or another with dates and times isn't it... > > As a 4th alternative: > > How about always carrying around the date as a Calendar. As soon as the > date comes out of the jdbc driver convert to calendar ( am I correct in > assuming there is no loss of timezone here? ). Then have the mapping to > the correct xs:date, xs:datetime, etc... be done by the xml encoder / > geoserver type mapping. I guess this only works for the new xml encoder > though, not for old gml2 encoder.
I think we can do that, but we would need to create new attribute types, TemporalAttributeType is just too generic (or as an alternative, have a subtype information as a field). Then we would need to change the AttributeTypeFactory.newAttributeType to allow a way to specify the date/time flavour. Finally all datastores should be updated as a consequence. Also consider I'm talking of changes to be performed against gt2 2.4.x. > As for the other alternatives, I think I like using a time library the > best. > > Question: If we use joda can we get rid of jaxb? If so it might just be > worth it. I'm under the impression you're using at least another jaxb class... was it something to handle namespaces? I just can't rember. Yes, it seem Joda can handle those formats, at least there is an XStream extension converter that uses it to handle ISO 8601 formats, see here: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/XSTR-116 The other thing is that using Joda time classes we would make gt2-main depend on it (the feature model is there), and that would be a new and sizeable dependency. What do gt2 developers think? In any case, it seems to me that such a sizeable switch could be performed on trunk, but not in an RC of 2.4.x... That's why I was sponsoring option 2, it requires very few changes ;) Cheers Andrea ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
