On Sep 22, 2009, at 4:35 AM, Niels Mayer wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 1:45 AM, Jean Couteau  
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> /* Groovy Class : Date parser#* */
>> import java.text.DateFormat;
>> import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
>> import java.util.Date;
>> class DateParser {
>> Date parse(toParse) {
>>   def formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
>>   return formatter.parse(toParse);
>> }
>> }
>>
>
> I did the same thing for a similar problem. You can also keep a copy  
> of the
> dateformatter on the groovy class, instead of recreating it each  
> time... and
> you might also want to consider setting the timezone to something
> consistent, like GMT.
>
>> import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils
>
> import java.text.SimpleDateFormat
>
> import java.util.TimeZone
>
> import java.lang.Double
>
>
>> class My_Groovy {
>
>  def                   xwiki
>
>  def                   context
>
>  def SimpleDateFormat  df
>
>
>>  void setObjects(param_xwiki, param_context) {
>
>    this.xwiki = param_xwiki
>
>    this.context = param_context
>
>    this.df = new SimpleDateFormat('HH:mm:ss.SSS');
>
>    this.df.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT"));
>
>  }
>
> ...
>
>  this.df.format( ... )
>
> ...
>
> }
>
>
> It's too bad there's no way of doing "new SimpleDateFormat" directly  
> out of
> velocity (or any kind of object creation). Then there would be no  
> need for
> the extra complication, and memory footprint, and loading times, all  
> for a
> very trivial use of groovy. It'd be nice if there was a generic way to
> dynamically load a class out of velocity, call "new" on it, etc.  
> This might
> even obviate the need for many of Xwiki's simpler Java plugins that  
> just
> provide access to an existing Java  class as $class, and then let  
> you call
> static methods on that as $class.myStaticMethod().

Isn't this good enough:
http://velocity.apache.org/tools/devel/javadoc/org/apache/velocity/tools/generic/DateTool.html
http://velocity.apache.org/tools/devel/javadoc/org/apache/velocity/tools/generic/ComparisonDateTool.html

?

Thanks
-Vincent

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