Hi, The Interval class has no direct support for open ended intervals. You have three choices at present: a) Code your own interval class that does support an open-ended interval b) Have your bean hold separate start and end dates, and set the end date to null for open-ended c) Use a far in the future date to indicate open-ended, such as 2099-12-3
The second is really a hack, and no different to the Y2K problems of course... Personally, I use (b), as (c) is a hack, and Ive not needed to go as far as (a). As for including the last day in the interval, this has been requested before, and may in fact be a bigger requirement than first thought. Stephen Michael Blumöhr wrote: > Hello, > > I recently discovered the joda time library. As another unhappy user > of the JDK date classes many ideas in joda time are really helpful. > Now we are evaluating to use the joda time classes. That's why I have > some questions. Thank you for your answers in advance. > > How do you handle an interval that is open in the future? > Assume we have customers who have assigned addresses. Each assignment > has a period for which it is valid. Most of them has no time limit in > the future. > > Such periods of validity are usually written with the beginning day > and the ending day. The end day is usually included. I would > appriciate I somebody have some hints how to handle this. > > We are using Hibernate and I tested the Hibernate support which works > well. So I'm interested in the extension for the new classes I read > in the mailing list archives. If the programmer of these is > interested I will test them an will report bugs (if there are some ;-) > > Michael > > > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > Diese Email wurde elektronisch auf Viren ueberprueft! > > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Joda-interest mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/joda-interest > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Joda-interest mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/joda-interest
