ecologylab.xml.types.scalar
Class DateType

java.lang.Object
  ecologylab.generic.Debug
      ecologylab.xml.types.scalar.ScalarType<java.util.Date>
          ecologylab.xml.types.scalar.DateType

public class DateType
extends ScalarType<java.util.Date>

Type system entry for Date.

Author:

Zachary O. Toups (toupsz@cs.tamu.edu)

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class ecologylab.xml.types.scalar.ScalarType

DEFAULT_DELIMS, DEFAULT_VALUE, DEFAULT_VALUE_STRING

Constructor Summary

DateType()

Method Summary

java.util.Date

getInstance(java.lang.String value) If this is a reference type, build an appropriate Object, given a String representation.

Methods inherited from class ecologylab.xml.types.scalar.ScalarType

affordsInterestExpression, allowDelimitersInTokens, allowNewLines, appendValue, appendValue, appendValue, appendValue, composedOfTerms, defaultValue, defaultValueLength, defaultValueString, delimeters, getClassName, getTypeClass, illegalChars, isDefaultValue, isDefaultValue, isFloatingPoint, isPrimitive, isReference, marshall, needsEscaping, setField, setFieldError, toString

Methods inherited from class ecologylab.generic.Debug

classSimpleName, closeLoggingFile, debug, debug, debug, debug, debugA, debugA, debugA, debugI, debugI, debugI, error, error, getClassName, getInteractive, getPackageName, getPackageName, getPackageName, initialize, level, level, level, logToFile, print, print, println, println, println, println, println, println, printlnA, printlnA, printlnA, printlnI, printlnI, printlnI, printlnI, setLoggingFile, show, show, superString, toggleInteractive, toString, toString, warning, warning, weird, weird

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

DateType

public DateType()

Method Detail

getInstance

public java.util.Date getInstance(java.lang.String value)

Description copied from class: ScalarType

If this is a reference type, build an appropriate Object, given a String representation. If it is a primitive type, return a boxed value.

Specified by:

getInstance in class ScalarType<java.util.Date>

Parameters:

value - is interpreted as a SimpleDateFormat in the form EEE MMM dd kk:mm:ss zzz yyyy (for example Wed Aug 02 13:12:50 CDT 2006); if that does not work, then attempts to use the DateFormat for the current locale instead.

See Also:

ScalarType.getInstance(java.lang.String)