Or you can use the built-in "text" tag for this:
<webwork:text name="'{0,date,yyyy/mm/dd}'" value0="myDate"/>
("name" can be from a resource bundle, if you need i18n support)
--- boxed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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
> > /* Copyright 2003 Anders Hovmöller
> *
> * The person or persons who have associated their work with
> * this document (the "Dedicator") hereby dedicate the entire
> * copyright in the work of authorship identified below (the
> * "Work") to the public domain.
> *
> * Dedicator makes this dedication for the benefit of the
> * public at large and to the detriment of Dedicator's heirs
> * and successors. Dedicator intends this dedication to be an
> * overt act of relinquishment in perpetuity of all present
> * and future rights under copyright law, whether vested or
> * contingent, in the Work. Dedicator understands that such
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> *
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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;
> }
> }
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