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

Stephen Colebourne scolebourne at joda.org
Mon Jun 17 09:20:48 UTC 2013


The standard JDK bug tracker should be used to keep track of these.

For info, Oracle is in control of integration of JSR-310 into other
APIs, not JSR-310.

Stephen


On 17 June 2013 09:40, Nick Williams
<nicholas+openjdk at nicholaswilliams.net> wrote:
>
> On Jun 15, 2013, at 1:34 PM, Nick Williams wrote:
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>> Currently, MessageFormat /only/ supports SimpleDateFormat and instances of java.util.Date or java.util.Calendar for date/time values. Because of this, it's impossible to use Java 8 date/time types with any of the i18n and localization tools.
>>
>> MessageFormat really needs support for types in java.time. Should I file a bug somewhere about this (where?), or is this message enough to get this going? I'm not even sure how it should work. I'm not sure how MessageFormat can know whether a SimpleDateFormat string or a DateTimeFormatter string is being supplied. Possibly, validation of the format string must be delayed until either a Date/Calendar or a java.time type is supplied for formatting.
>
> Looks like there _also_ needs to be java.time support in JAXB. I have a POJO with an @XmlElement "lastModified" of type java.time.Instant, and it just gets printed out <lastModified /> (the value is ignored). It should be printed out ISO 8601-formatted.



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