Hi Jason,
Jason Steenstrapickens wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> We have recently been experiencing issues deserialising XML with specific
> time zones. This only seems to be occurring on Windows where the time zone
> does not have an Id that is in the available list of Ids. It seems this is
> caused by Windows not using the Olson time zone database.
>
>
> For example, when setting the system time zone to GMT-12:00 and calling
> TimeZone.getDefault().getID() the JRE will return "GMT-12:00". Joda time
> knows about this and if you try and use this to convert to a Joda
> DateTimeZone it will strip of the "GMT" prefix and return a time zone with
> Id of "-12:00".
>
>
> The problem seems to be in
>
com.thoughtworks.xstream.converters.extended.ISO8601GregorianCalendarConverter.fromString(String)?.
> This has the following code:
>
> ...
> String timeZoneID = TimeZone.getDefault().getID();
> for (int i = 0; i < formattersNoUTC.length; i++ ) {
> try {
> DateTimeFormatter formatter =
> formattersNoUTC[i].withZone(DateTimeZone.forID(timeZoneID)); ...
> } ...
> }
> ...
>
> This code is getting the time zone Id from the JRE and then passing this
> to DateTimeZone.forID to convert to a Joda time zone. This doesn't work
> when the time zone Id is not in the available list of Ids. There is an
> invalid assumption that the same time zone Id from the JRE can be used to
> get the Joda time zone.
>
> There is actually no need to even use the Id here, the code could simply
> be: ...
> final DateTimeZone dtz = DateTimeZone.getDefault();
> for (int i = 0; i < formattersNoUTC.length; i++ ) {
> try {
> DateTimeFormatter formatter = formattersNoUTC[i].withZone(dtz);
> ...
> } ...
> }
> ...
>
> This ignores the problem entirely and uses the time zone reported by Joda
> directly.
Can you open a JIRA issue please? Simply follow instructions at
http://xstream.codehaus.org/issues.html
It will help us to track the changes for an upcoming release.
Thanks,
Jörg
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