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Michał Sobkiewicz commented on FREEMARKER-31:
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Hi, Daniel!
This is definitely an acceptable compromise! Despite being a little more
verbose, proposed solution gives even more power than expected. I wish i knew
about _object builder expressions_ before. I see now that solution was two
clicks ahead, at {{Configuration#setSetting}} documentation.
Javadoc is indeed a great place to describe every supported option, it was
surprising however to find there a different _kind_ of options (expressions
instead of literals). Nothing in the examples suggested that it's going to be
possible. Because I was convinced that the only thing I can find is more
"simple", "default" and "square_bracket"-like constants, I hadn't checked
javadoc.
Please consider adding at least one example that uses expressions at
[http://freemarker.org/docs/pgui_config_settings.html] to indicate that there
is more power to discover.
Thank you for your help!
> 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}} by using property.
> {{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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