Re: [OS-webwork] Rendering java.sql.Timestamp?

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Larsson, Jonas wrote:

Can someone please give me a pointer to how to customize the formatter for
rendering date objects (and it's subclasses). I am trying to render a
java.sql.Timestamp property and it only shows the date (not the time) AND
the date is on the wrong locale.
I remember seeing something about this somewhere, but I can't find it again.

I'm using WW1.4 and the WW taglib BTW.
 

I wrote a tag for this, that simply uses the SimpleDateFormat class. I 
have attached it.

Anders Hovmöller
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/**
 * Get a date from the ValueStack and format it in a nice way. Defaults to 
"yyyy-MM-dd" format.
 */

package net.killingar.webwork.view.taglib;

import javax.servlet.jsp.JspException;
import javax.servlet.jsp.JspTagException;
import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;

public class DateTag extends webwork.view.taglib.WebWorkTagSupport
{
        // Attributes ----------------------------------------------------
        protected String valueAttr;
        protected String formatting = "yyyy-MM-dd";
        protected DateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat(formatting);

        // Public --------------------------------------------------------
        public void setValue(String inName) { valueAttr = inName; }
        public void setFormat(String inFormatting) { formatting = inFormatting; 
formatter = new SimpleDateFormat(formatting); }

        // BodyTag implementation ----------------------------------------
        public int doStartTag() throws JspException
        {
                try
                {
                        Date value = (Date)findValue(valueAttr);

                        if (value != null)
                                pageContext.getOut().write(formatter.format(value));
                }
                catch (Exception e)
                {
                        e.printStackTrace();
                        throw new JspTagException("Could not show value " + valueAttr 
+ ":" + e);
                }

                return SKIP_BODY;
        }
}