dateutil.setdateformatter - need setdatetimeformatter!

[mathias]

Hi, not sure if this has been discussed, but i couldn't find any thread. My header is wrong, i'm talking about datetimeparser, not formatter!

I have a need for a custom, locale specific dateformatter/parser. For most fields i want to display my datetime fields as "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm".

For this purpose i set dateutil.setdateformatter with a custom class, and a parser to parse it back into dates.

for this i'm using

Dateutil.setdateformatter and dateutil.setdateparser

However, my issue is that if i have an item, for example date field or datechooser which is date and not datetime, that formatter is still called, then with the string "yyyy-MM-dd" but without the time part -> i get an IllegalArgumentException.

What i imagine is needed here is dateutil.setdatetimeparser in addition to setdateparser, but there is no such method.

Is there another way to accomplish what i need i.e. one parser for date and another one for datetime ?

Thanks for input.

[michalg]

According to the current docs following formatters are available:

static void 	setNormalDateDisplayFormatter(DateDisplayFormatter formatter)
          Set the default formatter for date objects to the custom DateDisplayFormatter passed in.
static void 	setShortDateDisplayFormatter(DateDisplayFormatter formatter)
          Set up a system wide default short date formatting function.
static void 	setShortDatetimeDisplayFormatter(DateDisplayFormatter formatter)
          Set up a system wide default short datetime formatting function.

So, looks like setNormalDateTimeDisplayFormatter() is missing ?
MichalG

[mathias]

Oh man, i just realized that i wrote it up wrong in my post.

I'm talking about DateUtil.setDateParser, not formatter.

the dateparser is called when a textfield, datechooser etc is to be converted into a date item, to be sent to the server for example.

My problem is that there's no setDateTimeParser. The dateparser gets called for both date and dateitem fields, from what i can see.

Therefor i basically had to code for both of my formats, so that if it's not a datetime item, i catch the illegalargument and then assume its a date on the "yyyy-MM-dd" format:

DateUtil.setDateParser(new DateParser() {
            public Date parse(String dateString) {
                try {
                    return dateTimeFormat.parse(dateString);
                } catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
                    try {
                        return dateFormat.parse(dateString);
                    } catch (IllegalArgumentException e1) {
                    }
                }
                return null;
            }
        });

It would be great if there was a DateUtil.setDateTimeParser...

[michalg]

I see.
I am doing the same in the setDateParser().
Right, it would be nice to have setDateTimeParser().
MichalG

[mathias]

Definitely. I'm not sure i remember correctly, but i thought i read somewhere that DateUtils would get a couple of upgrades. Guess this nice one didn't make it...