Michał Sobkiewicz created FREEMARKER-31:
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Summary: Default date type as setting
Key: FREEMARKER-31
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FREEMARKER-31
Project: Apache Freemarker
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: engine
Reporter: Michał Sobkiewicz
To set default date type, one have to use
{{freemarker.ext.beans.BeansWrapperConfiguration#setDefaultDateType(int)}} or
{{freemarker.ext.beans.BeansWrapper#setDefaultDateType(int)}}. It would be
convenient to set {{defaultDateType}} (among others) by using properties.
{{freemarker.core.Configurable#setSetting(String,String)}} recognises date,
time and number formats. It even lets you choose object wrapper! At the same
time you can't specify how to deal with not-so-exotic {{java.util.Date}}.
I'd like to set default date type just as I can set exception handling. I know
that {{defaultDateType}} attribute would have to be moved to
{{freemarker.template.Configuration}}, but I'm convinced that this is the right
thing to do.
If it makes sense to talk about "default date type" (which seems to be true as
{{defaultDateType}} property already exists), it may be also valid to expect a
little more accessible way to set this up. With no customized bean wrapper,
without adding a bit redundant "?date" after each... well.. date, you end up
with {{freemarker.core.UnknownDateTypeFormattingUnsupportedException}}.
Sample settings below:
{quote}
locale=en_US
dateFormat=yyyy-MM-dd
numberFormat=0.00
logTemplateExceptions=false
templateExceptionHandler=rethrow
defaultDateType=date
{quote}
I truly believe that the last one should be supported.
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