Joda-Time doe snot support this XML encoding with a leading sign. Its
not a standard ISO-8601 format AFAICT. Instead, we use P-120D.
Stephen
On 19 June 2013 15:31, Gemmill, Craig <craig.gemm...@tridium.com> wrote:
> Hi all-
>
>
>
> I’m new to using Joda-time, but I have a question about using Period with
> negative times. According to the XML Schema xs:duration datatype, and as
> far as I can tell, the ISO8601 format, a negative duration would be
> expressed with a leading minus sign. For example, minus 120 days would be
> “–P120D”. However, I tried a quick ‘roundtrip’ test using
> org.joda.time.Period and org.joda.time.format.ISOPeriodFormat, and this
> doesn’t seem to work:
>
>
>
> import org.joda.time.Period;
>
> import org.joda.time.format.ISOPeriodFormat;
>
>
>
> public class PeriodTester
>
> {
>
> public static void main(String[] args)
>
> {
>
> Period p = new Period(-8);
>
> String s = ISOPeriodFormat.standard().print(p);
>
> Period p1 = ISOPeriodFormat.standard().parsePeriod(s);
>
> System.out.println("p:"+p+"; ->s:"+s+"; ->p1:"+p1);
>
> }
>
> }
>
>
>
> I would expect this to output:
>
> p:-PT0.008S; ->s:-PT0.008S; ->p1:-PT0.008S
>
>
>
> But instead I get
>
> p:PT-0.008S; ->s:PT-0.008S; ->p1:PT0.008S
>
>
>
> So this is not able to survive an encode/decode. It appears that the
> encoder is not putting the minus sign in the right place, but the decoder is
> expecting a leading sign?
>
>
>
> Is there a better way to encode the Period so that it uses a leading minus
> sign?
>
>
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
>
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