Re: [flexcoders] Date issue - need to create date out of string like xxxx-xx-xx from XML
I don't actually use that code I posted above, as all our dates come in via
SOAP, for which Flex's unmarshaller is even worse :)
I like the strict checking you can do with a regex. Dates are an awful
touchy subject in this business.
-Josh
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Alex Harui [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just out of curiosity, does Date.parse() suck that badly? I would just
regex replace - with / and hand it to Date.parse().
*From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On
Behalf Of *Tim Rowe
*Sent:* Monday, September 15, 2008 10:56 PM
*To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
*Subject:* RE: [flexcoders] Date issue - need to create date out of string
like -xx-xx from XML
It's got to just be total coincidence that what's virtually the same
question has come up twice in the same day.
The answer I provided earlier will also work, and will do so in ~5 lines of
code.
--Tim
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*From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On
Behalf Of *Josh McDonald
*Sent:* Tuesday, 16 September 2008 3:43 PM
*To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
*Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] Date issue - need to create date out of string
like -xx-xx from XML
Old code, probably terribly inefficient:
//-MM-DD
static public const SIMPLE_INTL_DATE : RegExp =
/^(\d{4})[-\/](\d{2})[-\/](\d{2})$/;
//-MM-DD - midday!
static public function parseSimpleIntlDate(input : String) : Date {
var parts : Array = input.match(SIMPLE_INTL_DATE);
var d : Date = new Date();
d.milliseconds = 0;
d.seconds = 0;
d.minutes = 0;
d.hours = 12;
d.date = Convert.stringToInt(parts[3]);
d.month = Convert.stringToInt(parts[2]) - 1;
d.fullYear = Convert.stringToInt(parts[1]); //Not really
necessary, since we're unlikely to have a year 999, but you get that.
return d;
}
public class Convert {
private static const validButIgnoredCharactersInNumbers : RegExp =
/[,\$]/g;
public static function stringToInt(input : String) : Number {
return parseInt(cleanupNumberInput(input));
}
public static function stringToFloat(input : String) : Number {
return parseFloat(cleanupNumberInput(input));
}
public static function cleanupNumberInput(input : String) : String
{
if (input == null) return null;
//Strip any initial 0s - don't wanna parse as octal, do we?
var output : String = input;
while (output.charAt(0) == 0 output.length 1)
output = output.substr(1);
return output.replace(validButIgnoredCharactersInNumbers, );
}
}
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 3:32 PM, Andrew Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello -
I am having an issue creating a valid Flex Date object from a value
returned to my app in XML. The returned value is 2008-09-14 (year-
month-day), and no matter how I try, I can't create a valid date
object from this.
Has anyone ever had to do something similar, or have any ideas on what
I might do?
Andrew
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Re: [flexcoders] Date issue - need to create date out of string like xxxx-xx-xx from XML
FWIW, I do actually hand-off to Date.parse() as the last step in my
hand-rolled XSD:DateTime parser :)
-Josh
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Josh McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't actually use that code I posted above, as all our dates come in via
SOAP, for which Flex's unmarshaller is even worse :)
I like the strict checking you can do with a regex. Dates are an awful
touchy subject in this business.
-Josh
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Alex Harui [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just out of curiosity, does Date.parse() suck that badly? I would just
regex replace - with / and hand it to Date.parse().
*From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On
Behalf Of *Tim Rowe
*Sent:* Monday, September 15, 2008 10:56 PM
*To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
*Subject:* RE: [flexcoders] Date issue - need to create date out of
string like -xx-xx from XML
It's got to just be total coincidence that what's virtually the same
question has come up twice in the same day.
The answer I provided earlier will also work, and will do so in ~5 lines
of code.
--Tim
--
*From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On
Behalf Of *Josh McDonald
*Sent:* Tuesday, 16 September 2008 3:43 PM
*To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
*Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] Date issue - need to create date out of
string like -xx-xx from XML
Old code, probably terribly inefficient:
//-MM-DD
static public const SIMPLE_INTL_DATE : RegExp =
/^(\d{4})[-\/](\d{2})[-\/](\d{2})$/;
//-MM-DD - midday!
static public function parseSimpleIntlDate(input : String) : Date
{
var parts : Array = input.match(SIMPLE_INTL_DATE);
var d : Date = new Date();
d.milliseconds = 0;
d.seconds = 0;
d.minutes = 0;
d.hours = 12;
d.date = Convert.stringToInt(parts[3]);
d.month = Convert.stringToInt(parts[2]) - 1;
d.fullYear = Convert.stringToInt(parts[1]); //Not really
necessary, since we're unlikely to have a year 999, but you get that.
return d;
}
public class Convert {
private static const validButIgnoredCharactersInNumbers : RegExp =
/[,\$]/g;
public static function stringToInt(input : String) : Number {
return parseInt(cleanupNumberInput(input));
}
public static function stringToFloat(input : String) : Number {
return parseFloat(cleanupNumberInput(input));
}
public static function cleanupNumberInput(input : String) : String
{
if (input == null) return null;
//Strip any initial 0s - don't wanna parse as octal, do we?
var output : String = input;
while (output.charAt(0) == 0 output.length 1)
output = output.substr(1);
return output.replace(validButIgnoredCharactersInNumbers, );
}
}
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 3:32 PM, Andrew Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello -
I am having an issue creating a valid Flex Date object from a value
returned to my app in XML. The returned value is 2008-09-14 (year-
month-day), and no matter how I try, I can't create a valid date
object from this.
Has anyone ever had to do something similar, or have any ideas on what
I might do?
Andrew
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RE: [flexcoders] Date issue - need to create date out of string like xxxx-xx-xx from XML
It's got to just be total coincidence that what's virtually the same
question has come up twice in the same day.
The answer I provided earlier will also work, and will do so in ~5 lines
of code.
--Tim
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Josh McDonald
Sent: Tuesday, 16 September 2008 3:43 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Date issue - need to create date out of string
like -xx-xx from XML
Old code, probably terribly inefficient:
//-MM-DD
static public const SIMPLE_INTL_DATE : RegExp =
/^(\d{4})[-\/](\d{2})[-\/](\d{2})$/;
//-MM-DD - midday!
static public function parseSimpleIntlDate(input : String) :
Date {
var parts : Array = input.match(SIMPLE_INTL_DATE);
var d : Date = new Date();
d.milliseconds = 0;
d.seconds = 0;
d.minutes = 0;
d.hours = 12;
d.date = Convert.stringToInt(parts[3]);
d.month = Convert.stringToInt(parts[2]) - 1;
d.fullYear = Convert.stringToInt(parts[1]); //Not really
necessary, since we're unlikely to have a year 999, but you get that.
return d;
}
public class Convert {
private static const validButIgnoredCharactersInNumbers : RegExp
= /[,\$]/g;
public static function stringToInt(input : String) : Number {
return parseInt(cleanupNumberInput(input));
}
public static function stringToFloat(input : String) : Number {
return parseFloat(cleanupNumberInput(input));
}
public static function cleanupNumberInput(input : String) :
String {
if (input == null) return null;
//Strip any initial 0s - don't wanna parse as octal, do we?
var output : String = input;
while (output.charAt(0) == 0 output.length 1)
output = output.substr(1);
return output.replace(validButIgnoredCharactersInNumbers,
);
}
}
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 3:32 PM, Andrew Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello -
I am having an issue creating a valid Flex Date object from a
value
returned to my app in XML. The returned value is 2008-09-14
(year-
month-day), and no matter how I try, I can't create a valid date
object from this.
Has anyone ever had to do something similar, or have any ideas
on what
I might do?
Andrew
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RE: [flexcoders] Date issue - need to create date out of string like xxxx-xx-xx from XML
Just out of curiosity, does Date.parse() suck that badly? I would just regex
replace - with / and hand it to Date.parse().
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Rowe
Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 10:56 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Date issue - need to create date out of string like
-xx-xx from XML
It's got to just be total coincidence that what's virtually the same question
has come up twice in the same day.
The answer I provided earlier will also work, and will do so in ~5 lines of
code.
--Tim
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Josh
McDonald
Sent: Tuesday, 16 September 2008 3:43 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Date issue - need to create date out of string like
-xx-xx from XML
Old code, probably terribly inefficient:
//-MM-DD
static public const SIMPLE_INTL_DATE : RegExp =
/^(\d{4})[-\/](\d{2})[-\/](\d{2})$/;
//-MM-DD - midday!
static public function parseSimpleIntlDate(input : String) : Date {
var parts : Array = input.match(SIMPLE_INTL_DATE);
var d : Date = new Date();
d.milliseconds = 0;
d.seconds = 0;
d.minutes = 0;
d.hours = 12;
d.date = Convert.stringToInt(parts[3]);
d.month = Convert.stringToInt(parts[2]) - 1;
d.fullYear = Convert.stringToInt(parts[1]); //Not really necessary,
since we're unlikely to have a year 999, but you get that.
return d;
}
public class Convert {
private static const validButIgnoredCharactersInNumbers : RegExp =
/[,\$]/g;
public static function stringToInt(input : String) : Number {
return parseInt(cleanupNumberInput(input));
}
public static function stringToFloat(input : String) : Number {
return parseFloat(cleanupNumberInput(input));
}
public static function cleanupNumberInput(input : String) : String {
if (input == null) return null;
//Strip any initial 0s - don't wanna parse as octal, do we?
var output : String = input;
while (output.charAt(0) == 0 output.length 1)
output = output.substr(1);
return output.replace(validButIgnoredCharactersInNumbers, );
}
}
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 3:32 PM, Andrew Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL
PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello -
I am having an issue creating a valid Flex Date object from a value
returned to my app in XML. The returned value is 2008-09-14 (year-
month-day), and no matter how I try, I can't create a valid date
object from this.
Has anyone ever had to do something similar, or have any ideas on what
I might do?
Andrew
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Re: [flexcoders] Date issue - need to create date out of string like xxxx-xx-xx from XML
Heh. Like I said, old and crap code :)
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Tim Rowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's got to just be total coincidence that what's virtually the same
question has come up twice in the same day.
The answer I provided earlier will also work, and will do so in ~5 lines of
code.
--Tim
--
*From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On
Behalf Of *Josh McDonald
*Sent:* Tuesday, 16 September 2008 3:43 PM
*To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
*Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] Date issue - need to create date out of string
like -xx-xx from XML
Old code, probably terribly inefficient:
//-MM-DD
static public const SIMPLE_INTL_DATE : RegExp =
/^(\d{4})[-\/](\d{2})[-\/](\d{2})$/;
//-MM-DD - midday!
static public function parseSimpleIntlDate(input : String) : Date {
var parts : Array = input.match(SIMPLE_INTL_DATE);
var d : Date = new Date();
d.milliseconds = 0;
d.seconds = 0;
d.minutes = 0;
d.hours = 12;
d.date = Convert.stringToInt(parts[3]);
d.month = Convert.stringToInt(parts[2]) - 1;
d.fullYear = Convert.stringToInt(parts[1]); //Not really
necessary, since we're unlikely to have a year 999, but you get that.
return d;
}
public class Convert {
private static const validButIgnoredCharactersInNumbers : RegExp =
/[,\$]/g;
public static function stringToInt(input : String) : Number {
return parseInt(cleanupNumberInput(input));
}
public static function stringToFloat(input : String) : Number {
return parseFloat(cleanupNumberInput(input));
}
public static function cleanupNumberInput(input : String) : String
{
if (input == null) return null;
//Strip any initial 0s - don't wanna parse as octal, do we?
var output : String = input;
while (output.charAt(0) == 0 output.length 1)
output = output.substr(1);
return output.replace(validButIgnoredCharactersInNumbers, );
}
}
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 3:32 PM, Andrew Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello -
I am having an issue creating a valid Flex Date object from a value
returned to my app in XML. The returned value is 2008-09-14 (year-
month-day), and no matter how I try, I can't create a valid date
object from this.
Has anyone ever had to do something similar, or have any ideas on what
I might do?
Andrew
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Re: [flexcoders] Date issue - need to create date out of string like xxxx-xx-xx from XML
Old code, probably terribly inefficient:
//-MM-DD
static public const SIMPLE_INTL_DATE : RegExp =
/^(\d{4})[-\/](\d{2})[-\/](\d{2})$/;
//-MM-DD - midday!
static public function parseSimpleIntlDate(input : String) : Date {
var parts : Array = input.match(SIMPLE_INTL_DATE);
var d : Date = new Date();
d.milliseconds = 0;
d.seconds = 0;
d.minutes = 0;
d.hours = 12;
d.date = Convert.stringToInt(parts[3]);
d.month = Convert.stringToInt(parts[2]) - 1;
d.fullYear = Convert.stringToInt(parts[1]); //Not really
necessary, since we're unlikely to have a year 999, but you get that.
return d;
}
public class Convert {
private static const validButIgnoredCharactersInNumbers : RegExp =
/[,\$]/g;
public static function stringToInt(input : String) : Number {
return parseInt(cleanupNumberInput(input));
}
public static function stringToFloat(input : String) : Number {
return parseFloat(cleanupNumberInput(input));
}
public static function cleanupNumberInput(input : String) : String {
if (input == null) return null;
//Strip any initial 0s - don't wanna parse as octal, do we?
var output : String = input;
while (output.charAt(0) == 0 output.length 1)
output = output.substr(1);
return output.replace(validButIgnoredCharactersInNumbers, );
}
}
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 3:32 PM, Andrew Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello -
I am having an issue creating a valid Flex Date object from a value
returned to my app in XML. The returned value is 2008-09-14 (year-
month-day), and no matter how I try, I can't create a valid date
object from this.
Has anyone ever had to do something similar, or have any ideas on what
I might do?
Andrew
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RE: [flexcoders] Date issue - need to create date out of string like xxxx-xx-xx from XML
Josh, have you logged bugs for specific issues with SOAP date unmarshalling? Pete From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Josh McDonald Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 2:05 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Date issue - need to create date out of string like -xx-xx from XML I don't actually use that code I posted above, as all our dates come in via SOAP, for which Flex's unmarshaller is even worse :) I like the strict checking you can do with a regex. Dates are an awful touchy subject in this business. -Josh
Re: [flexcoders] Date issue - need to create date out of string like xxxx-xx-xx from XML
Actually I haven't. I voted on one, that in order to fix would require some actual safety checking be put into the date parsing (SDK-14932) - this is an actual bug as it's failing to parse valid dates. I also voted on the general let me validate responses bug (ASC-3153), as mostly my date problems stem from Flex simply producing rubbish dates instead of a null or an exception when encountering invalid XML data, which I assume was a design decision (for speed's sake) rather than an actual bug. Some stricter unmarshalling code that regexes against the ISO standards is still on my to-do list, but it's not that near the top yet :) -Josh On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 11:24 PM, Peter Farland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Josh, have you logged bugs for specific issues with SOAP date unmarshalling? Pete From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Josh McDonald Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 2:05 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Date issue - need to create date out of string like -xx-xx from XML I don't actually use that code I posted above, as all our dates come in via SOAP, for which Flex's unmarshaller is even worse :) I like the strict checking you can do with a regex. Dates are an awful touchy subject in this business. -Josh -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Alternative FAQ location: https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=942dbdc8-e469-446f-b4cf-1e62079f6847 Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo! Groups Links -- Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee. http://flex.joshmcdonald.info/ :: Josh 'G-Funk' McDonald :: 0437 221 380 :: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
