JBAS-2774 - Date Property Editor
adrian.brock Apr 3, 2006 12:59 PMThe user is correct that Date.toString() returns the date in "English".
The user's solution looks like a kludge on top of another kludge.
The whole basis of the DateEditor looks flawed to me.
It wants to treat the Date as a piece of Text.
A more "normal" editor would looks like this, where it converts the
String to a Date during setAsText() and it uses DateFormat.format()
to format using the current Locale.
/* * JBoss, Home of Professional Open Source * Copyright 2005, JBoss Inc., and individual contributors as indicated * by the @authors tag. See the copyright.txt in the distribution for a * full listing of individual contributors. * * This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it * under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of * the License, or (at your option) any later version. * * This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU * Lesser General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public * License along with this software; if not, write to the Free * Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA * 02110-1301 USA, or see the FSF site: http://www.fsf.org. */ package org.jboss.util.propertyeditor; import java.beans.PropertyEditorSupport; import java.security.AccessController; import java.security.PrivilegedAction; import java.text.DateFormat; import java.text.ParseException; import java.text.SimpleDateFormat; import java.util.Date; import org.jboss.util.NestedRuntimeException; /** * A property editor for {@link java.util.Date}. * * @version <tt>$Revision: 1.8 $</tt> * @author <a href="mailto:jason@planet57.com">Jason Dillon</a> * @author <a href="mailto:d_jencks@users.sourceforge.net">David Jencks</a> * @author Scott.Stark@jboss.org */ public class DateEditor2 extends PropertyEditorSupport { static DateFormat[] formats; /** The text version of the date */ private String text; static { PrivilegedAction action = new PrivilegedAction() { public Object run() { String defaultFormat = System.getProperty("org.jboss.util.propertyeditor.DateEditor.format", "MMM d, yyyy"); formats = new DateFormat[] { new SimpleDateFormat(defaultFormat), // Tue Jan 04 00:00:00 PST 2005 new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM d HH:mm:ss z yyyy"), // Wed, 4 Jul 2001 12:08:56 -0700 new SimpleDateFormat("EEE, d MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss Z") }; return null; } }; AccessController.doPrivileged(action); } public void setAsText(String text) { int n = 0; ParseException ex = null; do { try { DateFormat df = formats[n]; Date date = df.parse(text); this.text = text; setValue(date); return; } catch (ParseException e) { ex = e; } n ++; } while( n < formats.length ); throw new NestedRuntimeException(ex); } public void setValue(Object value) { text = null; super.setValue(value); } public String getAsText() { if (text != null) return text; DateFormat df = formats[2]; Date date = (Date) getValue(); return df.format(date); } }