JBoss EL date formatting

[manuel.martin]

Supose that I got a localized message like that

message = My date is #{myDate}

and myDate is a session Date var.

When I print the message #{messages['message']} I got the next output:

My date is 2007-11-27 12:22:46.338

Is there any method to format the output of the date? I would like obtain

My date is 2007-11-27.

Thanks in advance!

[damianharvey]

There are a plethora of options open to you here.

1. If the messages.properties message is just 'My date is'. Then you just print out your date eg:

#{messages['message']}<h:outputText value="#{myDate}"><s:convertDateTime dateStyle="yyyy-MM-dd"/></h:outputText>

2. If the messages.properties message is 'My Date is {0}' then you could create the message in your Bean using MessageFormat eg:

@In Map<String, String> messages;
..
public String getMyMessage() {
 return MessageFormat.format(messages.get("message"), new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd").format(this.myDate));
}

I'm sure that there are several other ways of doing it.

Cheers,

Damian.

[manuel.martin]

Thank you Damian, I discard Option 1 because:

Maybe in other languages the phrase may be writen with another words order. EJ:

#{myDate} is the date

But option 2 is useful for me:

My date is {0,date,dd-MM-yyyy}

But, do you know if I can pass these parameters throug EL? Ej:

#{messages['message'](myDate)}

or something like these?

Thanks!

[damianharvey]

Don't think that you can. It's a Map so doesn't have that ability. It shouldn't be too difficult to write your own MessageFormat type component though.

Cheers,

Damian.

[mars1412]

maybe this will help u:
http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4100761