Thread safe date format/parse API [SPR-2300]

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Matt Magoffin opened SPR-2300 and commented

On many projects I deal with parsing/formatting dates and times, and with Spring have been very often injecting Apache's FastDateFormat to perform thread-safe date formatting as Format bean properties. But for date parsing, with SimpleDateFormat not being thread safe, there isn't a nice JDK API for performing thread-safe parsing.

I thought perhaps Spring could help with a simple date format/parse API, that could use Apache's FastDateFormat or Joda Time as different implementations for providing thread-safe formatting and parsing.

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Attachments:

• JodaDateFormat.java (3.17 kB)
• JodaDateFormatTest.java (1.91 kB)
• ThreadSafeDateFormat.java (1.09 kB)

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Matt Magoffin commented

An example date format/parse API. The idea is that Spring can be used to configure application-specific implementations, as in many cases a single application will need to parse/format dates in a consistent manner (i.e. same pattern and same time zone applied).

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Matt Magoffin commented

Example implementation using Joda Time.

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Matt Magoffin commented

Example JUnit test case for JodaDataFormat.