On 1/27/07, Karr, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Below.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dion Gillard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 3:18 AM
> To: Jakarta Commons Users List
> Subject: Re: [jelly] How to build a date object with current
> time in GMT?
>
> On 1/26/07, Karr, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I have a Jelly script that puts the current time into a string. It
> > works ok, but I'm realizing I need to convert the time to
> GMT before
> > putting it into the string. It's straightforward to do
> this in Java,
> > but I'm having trouble figuring out how to do this in the
> limited Java
> > syntax in Jelly.
> >
> > In Java, I might do something like this:
> >
> > Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
> calendar.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone(TimeZone.getAvailableIDs(0)[
> > 0]
> > ));
> > date gmtDate = calendar.getDate();
> >
> > In Jelly, I think I can get close, but part of what I'm
> doing doesn't
> > work.
> >
> > ----------
> > <j:invokeStatic className="java.util.Calendar" method="getInstance"
> > var="calendar"/>
> > <j:invokeStatic className="java.util.TimeZone"
> method="getAvailableIDs"
> > var="timezones">
> > <j:arg type="int" value="0"/>
> > </j:invokeStatic>
> >
> > <j:forEach var="timezone" begin="0" end="0" items="${timezones}">
> > </j:forEach>
>
> Not sure why you're doing this....assuming it's to get timezones[0]
>
> >
> > <j:setProperties object="${calendar}" timeZone="${timezone}"/>
>
> How about (untried)
>
> <j:setProperties object="${calendar}" timeZone="${timezones[0]}"/>
>
> ?
That would probably be better, but both of these fail with the same
"argument type mismatch" error. I wonder whether the "${timezone}"
reference tries to produce a String instead of a TimeZone object?
> > ----------
> >
> > I get an unhelpful "argument type mismatch" error on the
> "setProperties"
> > element. I added "log:info" elements along the way to verify I was
> > getting reasonable values (like the value for "timezone" resulting
> > from the "forEach" loop).
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Try dumping out:
${timezones[0].class.name}
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