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 _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
