Re: [Simple-support] Date

[Niall G. <gal...@ya...>]

Hi,

Yes you should be able to serialize and deserialize dates without any trouble. Support for the java.util.Date is not included, as it is a pretty flakey object, that is all but deprecated. I would do something like:

@Root
public class MyObject {

   @Element
   public MyDate date;
}

@Root
public class MyDate {

   @Attribute
   private String getTime() {
      return System.currentTimeMillis();
   }

   @Atttribute
   private void setTime(long time) {
      this.time = time;
   }

   public Date toDate() {
      return new Date(time);
   }
}

Which would look something like:

<myObject>
   <myDate time="123456789"/>
</myObject>

Of course it may be better to use a string format to perform this like so:

@Root
public class MyObject {

   private static final DateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE, d MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss Z");

   @Attribute
   private String date;

   private Date myDate;

   @Commit
   private void commit() throws Exception {
      myDate = formatter.parse(date);
   }

   @Persist
   private void persist() throws Exception {
       date = formatter.format(myDate);
   }

   public void setDate(Date myDate) {
      this.myDate = myDate;
   }
  
   public Date getDate() {
      return myDate;
   }
}

This allows XML like so:

<myDate time="Wed, 4 Jul 2001 12:08:56 -0700"/>

I have intentionally avoided supporting java.util.Date as it is such a poor date representation.

Niall

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From: "Zaffke, Micholas Mr CIV USA USAREUR" <Mic...@EU...>
To: sim...@li...
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 9:18:22 AM
Subject: [Simple-support] Date




 


 

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Does Simple have any support for Date data types? My object
holds a java.util.Date but when I persist it to XML the result contains this:
 

<DATE class="java.sql.Timestamp"/>
 




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