biz.wedoit4u.ejb.session
Class DateFormatterBean

java.lang.Object
  biz.wedoit4u.ejb.session.SessionBeanAdapter
      biz.wedoit4u.ejb.session.DateFormatterBean

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.io.Serializable, javax.ejb.EnterpriseBean, javax.ejb.SessionBean

public class DateFormatterBean
extends SessionBeanAdapter

Common date transformations that are performed.

Version:

$Id: DateFormatterBean.java,v 1.3 2004/05/26 11:42:36 rakesh Exp $

Author:

Rakesh Vidyadharan 17^th September 2003

Copyright 2003, wedoit4u.biz

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Serialized Form

Field Summary

private java.text.SimpleDateFormat	dateTimeFormat The formatter that will be used for ISO 8601 date-time formats.
static java.lang.String	DATETIMEFORMAT The format that will be used to specify date-time values in the ISO 8601 format.
private java.text.SimpleDateFormat	dayFormat The formatter that will be used for ISO 8601 day formats.
static java.lang.String	DAYFORMAT The format that will be used to specify day values to encode/decode date objects.
private java.text.SimpleDateFormat	dayFormatWithTimeZone The formatter that will be used for ISO 8601 day formats.
private java.text.SimpleDateFormat	sqlTimestampFormat The formatter that will be used for SQL Timestamp formats.
static java.lang.String	SQLTIMESTAMPFORMAT The format that will be used to specify date-time values to encode/decode date objects in SQL timestamp format.
private java.text.SimpleDateFormat	timeFormat The formatter that will be used for ISO 8601 time formats.
static java.lang.String	TIMEFORMAT The format that will be used to specify time values to encode/decode date objects.

Fields inherited from class biz.wedoit4u.ejb.session.SessionBeanAdapter

sessionContext

Constructor Summary

DateFormatterBean()
Default constructor.

Method Summary

java.lang.String	getDateTime(java.util.Date date) Formats the specified Date object in ISO 8601 date-time format (yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH-mm-ss'Z').
java.util.Date	getDateTime(java.lang.String date) Parses the specified String object in ISO 8601 date-time format (yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH-mm-ss'Z') into a Java Date.
java.lang.String	getDay(java.util.Date date) Formats the specified Date object in ISO 8601 day format (yyyy-MM-dd).
java.util.Date	getDay(java.lang.String date) Parses the specified String in ISO 8601 day format (yyyy-MM-dd) into a Java Date.
java.lang.String	getSQLTimestamp(java.util.Date date) Formats the specified Date object in SQL timestamp format (yyyy-MM-dd HH-mm-ss).
java.util.Date	getSQLTimestamp(java.lang.String date) Parses the specified String object in SQL timestamp format (yyyy-MM-dd HH-mm-ss) into a Java Date.
java.lang.String	getTime(java.util.Date date) Formats the specified Date object in ISO 8601 time format (HH:mm:ss).
java.util.Date	getTime(java.lang.String date) Parses the specified String object in ISO 8601 time format (HH:mm:ss) into a Java Date.

Methods inherited from class biz.wedoit4u.ejb.session.SessionBeanAdapter

ejbActivate, ejbCreate, ejbPassivate, ejbRemove, setSessionContext

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

DAYFORMAT

public static final java.lang.String DAYFORMAT

The format that will be used to specify day values to encode/decode date objects.

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Constant Field Values

TIMEFORMAT

public static final java.lang.String TIMEFORMAT

The format that will be used to specify time values to encode/decode date objects.

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Constant Field Values

SQLTIMESTAMPFORMAT

public static final java.lang.String SQLTIMESTAMPFORMAT

The format that will be used to specify date-time values to encode/decode date objects in SQL timestamp format.

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Constant Field Values

DATETIMEFORMAT

public static final java.lang.String DATETIMEFORMAT

The format that will be used to specify date-time values in the ISO 8601 format.

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Constant Field Values

dayFormat

private java.text.SimpleDateFormat dayFormat

The formatter that will be used for ISO 8601 day formats. No time-zone is set for this formatter.

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DAYFORMAT

dayFormatWithTimeZone

private java.text.SimpleDateFormat dayFormatWithTimeZone

The formatter that will be used for ISO 8601 day formats.

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DAYFORMAT

timeFormat

private java.text.SimpleDateFormat timeFormat

The formatter that will be used for ISO 8601 time formats. No time-zone is set for this formatter.

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TIMEFORMAT

dateTimeFormat

private java.text.SimpleDateFormat dateTimeFormat

The formatter that will be used for ISO 8601 date-time formats. No time-zone is set for this formatter.

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DATETIMEFORMAT

sqlTimestampFormat

private java.text.SimpleDateFormat sqlTimestampFormat

The formatter that will be used for SQL Timestamp formats. No time-zone is set for this formatter.

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SQLTIMESTAMPFORMAT

Constructor Detail

DateFormatterBean

public DateFormatterBean()

Default constructor. No special code required.

Method Detail

getDay

public java.lang.String getDay(java.util.Date date)

Formats the specified Date object in ISO 8601 day format (yyyy-MM-dd). This is also the SQL Date format.

Parameters:

date - - The input date that is to be formatted.

Returns:

String - The parsed date value.

getDay

public java.util.Date getDay(java.lang.String date)
                      throws java.text.ParseException

Parses the specified String in ISO 8601 day format (yyyy-MM-dd) into a Java Date. This is also the SQL Date format.

Parameters:

date - - The input date that is to be parsed.

Returns:

Date - The formatted string value.

Throws:

java.text.ParseException - - If an exception is encountered while attempting to parse the input String in yyyy-MM-dd format into a Java Date.

getTime

public java.lang.String getTime(java.util.Date date)

Formats the specified Date object in ISO 8601 time format (HH:mm:ss). This is also the SQL Time format.

Parameters:

date - - The input date that is to be formatted.

Returns:

String - The formatted string value.

getTime

public java.util.Date getTime(java.lang.String date)
                       throws java.text.ParseException

Parses the specified String object in ISO 8601 time format (HH:mm:ss) into a Java Date. This is also the SQL Time format.

Parameters:

date - - The input date that is to be parsed.

Returns:

Date - The parsed date value.

Throws:

java.text.ParseException - - If an exception is encountered while attempting to parse the input String in HH-mm-ss format into a Java Date.

getDateTime

public java.lang.String getDateTime(java.util.Date date)

Formats the specified Date object in ISO 8601 date-time format (yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH-mm-ss'Z').

Note: This assumes that the input string is in UTC as indicated by the 'Z'.

Parameters:

date - - The input date that is to be formatted.

Returns:

String - The formatted string value.

getDateTime

public java.util.Date getDateTime(java.lang.String date)
                           throws java.text.ParseException

Parses the specified String object in ISO 8601 date-time format (yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH-mm-ss'Z') into a Java Date.

Note: This assumes that the input string is in UTC as indicated by the 'Z'.

Parameters:

date - - The input string that is to be formatted.

Returns:

Date - The parsed date value.

Throws:

java.text.ParseException

getSQLTimestamp

public java.lang.String getSQLTimestamp(java.util.Date date)

Formats the specified Date object in SQL timestamp format (yyyy-MM-dd HH-mm-ss).

Parameters:

date - - The input date that is to be formatted.

Returns:

String - The formatted string value.

getSQLTimestamp

public java.util.Date getSQLTimestamp(java.lang.String date)
                               throws java.text.ParseException

Parses the specified String object in SQL timestamp format (yyyy-MM-dd HH-mm-ss) into a Java Date.

Parameters:

date - - The input string that is to be formatted.

Returns:

Date - The parsed date value.

Throws:

java.text.ParseException