Details
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Type:
Improvement
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Status:
Closed
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Priority:
Major
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Resolution: Fixed
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Affects Version/s: Release 1.5
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Fix Version/s: Release 1.5
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Component/s: None
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Labels:None
Description
DateFormatter's formatPattern should be protected (or maybe a getter-method?). I want to extend DateFormatter to set the default format to "medium" (right now, init() defaults formatPattern to "short"), so I would like to do something like this:
public class GermanDateFormatter extends DateFormatter {
@Override
public void init() {
if (formatPattern == null) {
formatPattern = "medium";
}
super.init();
}
}
Or is there any better way to provide a formatPattern to the UrlBuilder#format() method?
Activity
Thank you – great idea! This solves my problem...
I still wonder if DateFormatter's formatPattern should have a getter, though 
I think it wouldn't harm but could make it a little bit more flexible as (these) TypeConverters and Formatters are prominent candidates for inheritance.
I think it wouldn't harm but could make it a little bit more flexible as (these) TypeConverters and Formatters are prominent candidates for inheritance.
The setFormatPattern(String) method always gets called before init(), even if the format pattern is null.
So you can override the default format pattern by intercepting the call to setFormatPattern:
public class GermanDateFormatter extends DateFormatter {
@Override
public void setFormatPattern(String formatPattern) { super.setFormatPattern(formatPattern == null ? "medium" : formatPattern); }
}