Hi, After having toyed around with Scala and recently Lift for a few weeks I have a question. To avoid jumping to conclusions let me first explain what I am trying to achieve:
I am not happy with the way MappedDateTime parses strings and formats dates by default. I want to be able to change these parsers/formatters globally and/or on a per mapper field basis. Here is what I did: By looking at the sourcecode I noticed that following MappedDateTime ultimately this depends on internetDateFormatter, dateFormatter and toInternetDate inside TimeHelpers. Since I don't know how to change the dependency of MappedDateTime on TimeHelpers to a subclass of TimeHelpers I decided to break the dependency by subclassing MappedDateTime and overriding _toForm and setFromAny and have my setFromAny call a modified toDate that in turn depends on a custom function to parse a string to a date. This function: 1) Tries to use a specifically definded DateFormat on the field 2) Tries to get a dateformat from a localized bundle 3) Falls back to the SHORT date format of the JVM locale. Here is what I would like to know: 1) Is there a way to have Lift use a TimeHelpers subclass without having to subclass stuff that depends on it? 2) Does anyone have suggestions how to improve/invalidate my approach? Just checking to see if I am on the right path or making this needlessly hard. Thanks in advance for any response. Best, Dirk Louwers --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to liftweb@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
