There needs to be support for java.time in java.text.MessageFormat

[Nick Williams]

I filed these bugs back in June. I noticed today that they were migrated to the JIRA instance:

https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8016742
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8016743

I filed the bugs, though they say someone else did. It's frustrating that suddenly I can't even comment on bugs I created, but that's beside the point of this email...

I'm dismayed to see that 8016743 has been scheduled for being fixed in JAVA 9! What the heck!? If I can't use the new Java 8 Date & Time types in Java's localization support, then what good are they!? I have to just stick with java.util.Date for yet another two years because I can't localize Java 8 Date & Time types in my i18n message formats. That's not the quality that I normally expect out of the Java team. >:-[

8016742 is a slightly different story. It's higher priority than 8016743, and although there is absolutely no update about it, it appears that MAYBE it's scheduled for being fixed in Java 8? I have no idea what "tbd_major" means. Note that a fix for 8016743 could potentially help fix 8016742.

Is there anyone here that can shed some light on 8016742's status and why the heck 8016743 isn't getting fixed until Java 9?

If not, can someone point me to a more appropriate list that I can escalate my frustrations on? These awesome new date & time types are useless if they aren't supported in Java's i18n/L10n and JAXB components.

N

On Jun 17, 2013, at 8:17 AM, Nick Williams wrote:

> 
> On Jun 17, 2013, at 6:53 AM, Stephen Colebourne wrote:
> 
>> On 17 June 2013 12:40, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com> wrote:
>>> On 17/06/2013 11:05, Nick Williams wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks. I have filed two different bugs for these two different problems.
>>> 
>>> Here they are:
>>> 
>>> 8016743: java.text.MessageFormat does not support java.time.* types
>>> 8016742: JAXB does not support java.time.* types
>>> 
>>> Note that JAXB is maintained in an upstream project (they periodically do
>>> source drops into OpenJDK). I don't know if support for java.time requires
>>> API changes or not but just to mention that JAXB is tied to a standalone JSR
>>> and I think they the requirement to be able to drop-in into jdk7 builds.
>> 
>> That could be a problem, but its really a process one. It shouldn't be
>> users that suffer as a result of issues like that (but there isn't
>> anything I can do about it other than wave my hands...)
>> Stephen
> 
> ^^ What Stephen said. :-)