org.jdesktop.swing.data
Class Converters.DateConverter

java.lang.Object
  org.jdesktop.swing.data.Converters.DateConverter

All Implemented Interfaces:

Converter

Enclosing class:

Converters

public static class Converters.DateConverter

extends Object

implements Converter

Converter for java.util.Date. The format parameter must be either an instance of DateFormat or null. If null is specified, the converter will use the default SimpleDateFormat object, whose format defaults to "EEE MMM dd hh:mm:ss z yyyy".

See Also:

DateFormat, SimpleDateFormat

Constructor Summary

Converters.DateConverter()

Converters.DateConverter(DateFormat defaultInputFormat, DateFormat defaultOutputFormat)

Method Summary

Object	decode(String value, Object format) Converts the specified String value to an object that is an instance of the class associated with this converter instance.
String	encode(Object value, Object format) Converts the specified Object value to a string representation.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

Converters.DateConverter

public Converters.DateConverter()

Converters.DateConverter

public Converters.DateConverter(DateFormat defaultInputFormat,
                                DateFormat defaultOutputFormat)

Method Detail

encode

public String encode(Object value,
                     Object format)
              throws ConversionException

Description copied from interface: Converter

Converts the specified Object value to a string representation. The value must be an instance of the class associated with this converter, else an exception will be thrown.

Specified by:

encode in interface Converter

Parameters:

value - the object to be converted

format - object containing string format information, or null if format information is either not relevant or unspecified

Returns:

String containing the converted string representation of the value

Throws:

ConversionException - if the conversion could not be performed

decode

public Object decode(String value,
                     Object format)
              throws ConversionException

Description copied from interface: Converter

Converts the specified String value to an object that is an instance of the class associated with this converter instance.

Specified by:

decode in interface Converter

Parameters:

value - String object to be converted

format - object containing string format information, or null if format information is either not relevant or unspecified

Returns:

Object which contains the converted value as an instance of the class associated with this converter

Throws:

ConversionException - if the conversion could not be performed