I am fine using Java 8 date time formatter. Are you in position to make a
pull request Billy?
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Jody Garnett
On 25 April 2017 at 18:26, Billy Newman <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am looking at the possibility to add support for optional milliseconds
> in an ISO8601 date string for the mongodb data module. Currently the
> module defines this SimpleDateFormatter:
>
> static final SimpleDateFormat ISO8601_SDF = new SimpleDateFormat("
> yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSXXX");
>
> Which works great if you are always parsing an ISO 8601 date string that
> contains milliseconds. However that formatter will not parse a date string
> with milliseconds.
>
> I have a couple questions:
>
> 1. Parsing an ISO 8601 string seems like a pretty common use case across
> many of the geotools modules. Does something already exist that does
> this? I apologize if it does, I looked through the repo and couldn’t find
> anything.
>
> 2. What are the thoughts on bringing in Java 8’s DateTimeFormatter? Looks
> like min version of Java is 8 so I don’t think there are any problems
> there. I only ask because I don’t see DateTimeFormatter being used
> anywhere else. Using DateTimeFormatter a format string can contain
> optional portions (e.g. optional milliseconds):
>
> DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern(“yyyy-MM-dd’T’HH:mm:ss[.SSS]XXX”), or even
> better the built in DateTimeFormatter.ISO_DATE_TIME.
>
>
> -Billy
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