[Hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Created: (HHH-1859) Parameterize string format in DateType, TimeType, and TimestampType org.hibernate.type classes

[Jeffrey M. M. (JIRA) <no...@at...>]

Parameterize string format in DateType, TimeType, and TimestampType org.hibernate.type classes
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

         Key: HHH-1859
         URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-1859
     Project: Hibernate3
        Type: Improvement

  Components: core  
    Versions: 3.1.3    
 Environment: Hibernate 3.1.3 configured against Oracle 9.2.0.6.
    Reporter: Jeffrey M. Metcalf
    Priority: Minor


The org.hibernate.type.DateType, org.hibernate.type.TimeType, and org.hibernate.type.TimestampType use hard coded format strings and juva.util.SImpleDateFormat class to parse dates from and format dates to Strings.  It would be very useful to parameterize these formats and allow the user to configure them via hibernate.cfg.xml.  This becomes even more useful as the DOM4J XML serialization and deserialization proliferates in use and graduates from a development to a core Hibernate feature.

The main case for parameterizing them is that the standard date and dateTime formats defined by the W3C XSD specification are respectively "yyyy-MM-dd" and "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss".  Hibernate is not using these standard formats, therefore allowing the user to specify the formats at runtime provides the flexibility to allow standard XML formats (as well as others) to be used.

-- 
This message is automatically generated by JIRA.
-
If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators:
   http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/secure/Administrators.jspa
-
For more information on JIRA, see:
   http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira