org.xfp.engine
Class ISO8601DateConverter

java.lang.Object
  org.xfp.engine.ISO8601DateConverter

All Implemented Interfaces:

org.apache.commons.beanutils.Converter

public final class ISO8601DateConverter

extends java.lang.Object

implements org.apache.commons.beanutils.Converter

Standard Converter implementation that converts an incoming String into a java.util.Date object according to the ISO 8601 standard, optionally using a default value or throwing a ConversionException if a conversion error occurs.

Supported date formats:

• 1997-07-16T19:20:30.45-02:00
• 1997-07-16T19:20:30+01:00
• 1997-07-16T19:20
• 1997-07-16
• 1997-07
• 1997

This class makes use of org.w3c.util.DateParser to parse strings.

Version:

$Id: ISO8601DateConverter.java,v 1.1 2004/03/19 15:56:43 flaviotordini Exp $

Author:

Flavio Tordini

See Also:

http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime, http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/java/classes/org/w3c/util/

Constructor Summary

ISO8601DateConverter()
Create a Converter that will throw a ConversionException if a conversion error occurs.

ISO8601DateConverter(java.lang.Object defaultValue)
Create a Converter that will return the specified default value if a conversion error occurs.

Method Summary

java.lang.Object

convert(java.lang.Class type, java.lang.Object value) Convert the specified input object into an output object of the specified type.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

ISO8601DateConverter

public ISO8601DateConverter()

Create a Converter that will throw a ConversionException if a conversion error occurs.

ISO8601DateConverter

public ISO8601DateConverter(java.lang.Object defaultValue)

Create a Converter that will return the specified default value if a conversion error occurs.

Parameters:

defaultValue - The default value to be returned

Method Detail

convert

public java.lang.Object convert(java.lang.Class type,
                                java.lang.Object value)

Convert the specified input object into an output object of the specified type.

Specified by:

convert in interface org.apache.commons.beanutils.Converter

Parameters:

type - Data type to which this value should be converted

value - The input value to be converted

Throws:

org.apache.commons.beanutils.ConversionException - if conversion cannot be performed successfully