Re: Struts2 and joda-time

2008-12-19 Thread Ronny Løvtangen
Be aware that new DateTime(null) results in "now". (go figure..) So you may want to check the parameter 'Date start' for null. Ronny On Dec 19, 2008, at 5:58 PM, Miguel wrote: Something you can allways do, is to define a parallel set of getter/setter in your bean with type java.util.Date that

Re: Struts2 and joda-time

2008-12-19 Thread Brian Pontarelli
Those will need NPE checks by the way. :) -bp On Dec 19, 2008, at 9:58 AM, Miguel wrote: Something you can allways do, is to define a parallel set of getter/setter in your bean with type java.util.Date that internally does the conversion. public Date getStartDate() {

Re: Struts2 and joda-time

2008-12-19 Thread Miguel
Something you can allways do, is to define a parallel set of getter/setter in your bean with type java.util.Date that internally does the conversion. public Date getStartDate() { return start.toDate(); } public void setStartDate(Date start) {

Re: Struts2 and joda-time

2008-12-17 Thread Brian Pontarelli
Date is pretty much deprecated except for a way to carry a long primitive around because of the TZ and conversions it lacks. It fails in some cases and most of the core API on Date is deprecated. Most folks should be using Calendar for date and time correctness if they don't want to use Jod

Re: Struts2 and joda-time

2008-12-16 Thread Andreas Joseph Krogh
On Tuesday 16 December 2008 23:49:51 Dave Newton wrote: > --- On Tue, 12/16/08, Andreas Joseph Krogh wrote: > > Anyone else needing this, or am I in some kind of > > joda-cult here in Norway? > > I've used it, but all the places I've consulted at use java.util.Date. Yours > is the first request

Re: Struts2 and joda-time

2008-12-16 Thread Miguel
I use yoda time, also with Hibernate. Once I found a patch (don't remember where), but as far as i have used it, i think it works. package funala.web.typeconverter; public class Iso8601DateTypeConverter extends StrutsTypeConverter {...} Try it, It does what it is supposed to do (reading the code)

Re: Struts2 and joda-time

2008-12-16 Thread Dave Newton
--- On Tue, 12/16/08, Andreas Joseph Krogh wrote: > Anyone else needing this, or am I in some kind of > joda-cult here in Norway? I've used it, but all the places I've consulted at use java.util.Date. Yours is the first request for it that I know of, and I follow the user group fairly closely.

Re: Struts2 and joda-time

2008-12-16 Thread Andreas Joseph Krogh
On Tuesday 16 December 2008 23:36:50 Musachy Barroso wrote: > > Previously I've created container-objects to wrap joda-classes, which works > > but shouldn't be necessary. I kind of hoped that Struts-2 in its most > > modern form (trunk) included converters for the most common object-types. I >

Re: Struts2 and joda-time

2008-12-16 Thread Musachy Barroso
> He he, we know different people it seems:-) Anyway, it's not like the API of > joda-time changes very often, so I assume it's practically a one-timer. But, > I see that this doesn't ich very much, obviously, among the core-developers, > and hence doesn't get scratched. > use the force you mus

Re: Struts2 and joda-time

2008-12-16 Thread Andreas Joseph Krogh
On Tuesday 16 December 2008 23:30:59 Martin Cooper wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Andreas Joseph Krogh > wrote: > > > On Tuesday 16 December 2008 23:14:50 Musachy Barroso wrote: > > > It doesn't mean that it will convert from string to a joda object, it > > > means that it will convert

Re: Struts2 and joda-time

2008-12-16 Thread Musachy Barroso
> Previously I've created container-objects to wrap joda-classes, which works > but shouldn't be necessary. I kind of hoped that Struts-2 in its most modern > form (trunk) included converters for the most common object-types. I think, > for what it's worth, the ticket is missleading and that it

Re: Struts2 and joda-time

2008-12-16 Thread Martin Cooper
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Andreas Joseph Krogh wrote: > On Tuesday 16 December 2008 23:14:50 Musachy Barroso wrote: > > It doesn't mean that it will convert from string to a joda object, it > > means that it will convert a string in ISO 8601 format, to a Date > > object. The patch in that t

Re: Struts2 and joda-time

2008-12-16 Thread Andreas Joseph Krogh
On Tuesday 16 December 2008 23:14:50 Musachy Barroso wrote: > It doesn't mean that it will convert from string to a joda object, it > means that it will convert a string in ISO 8601 format, to a Date > object. The patch in that ticket used joda lib to create the ISO 8601, > if I don't remember wron

Re: Struts2 and joda-time

2008-12-16 Thread Musachy Barroso
It doesn't mean that it will convert from string to a joda object, it means that it will convert a string in ISO 8601 format, to a Date object. The patch in that ticket used joda lib to create the ISO 8601, if I don't remember wrong. musachy On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 5:09 PM, Andreas Joseph Krogh