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Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 11:00:57 -0800 (PST)
From: "Craig R. McClanahan" <craigmcc@apache.org>
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Subject: Re: [beanutils] default converters for File and URL?
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On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Joe Germuska wrote:

> Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 11:03:41 -0600
> From: Joe Germuska <Joe@Germuska.com>
> Reply-To: Jakarta Commons Developers List <commons-dev@jakarta.apache.org>
> To: Jakarta Commons Developers List <commons-dev@jakarta.apache.org>
> Subject: Re: [beanutils] default converters for File and URL?
>
> >So once a DateConverter is made, is the 'proper' way to handle the
> >"YY/DD/MM" style thing to have a custom Locale? Or should I pursue the
> >idea of optional arguments being settable on converters?
>
> I think this has some promise.  After all, I can imagine using it via
> a digester rule like
> <set-property property="startDate" value="2003-04-04"
> format="yyyy-MM-dd" />  This was part of the use case that started
> our whole discussion.  I think setting a format explicitly is much
> safer than counting on Locales.
>

The interesting part of this issue (and why there's no default
DateConverter) is deciding what String format to use by default.  I would
have leaned towards YYYY-MM-DD because that's what java.sql.Date does, but
it's not particularly user friendly for input fields.

> Joe

Craig

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