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/** * Copyright (c) 2008 OpenSprout Team. * * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html * */ package org.opensprout.osaf.propertyeditor; import java.beans.PropertyEditorSupport; import java.text.DateFormat; import java.text.ParseException; import java.text.SimpleDateFormat; import org.springframework.util.StringUtils; /** * This PropertyEditor maps Date to String and visa versa. * @author Whiteship */ public class FormatDatePropertyEditor extends PropertyEditorSupport { DateFormat format; public FormatDatePropertyEditor() { format = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy/MM/dd"); } public FormatDatePropertyEditor(String format) { this.format = new SimpleDateFormat(format); } /** Date -> String */ @Override public String getAsText() { if (getValue() == null) return ""; return format.format(getValue()); } /** String -> Date */ @Override public void setAsText(String text) throws IllegalArgumentException { if (!StringUtils.hasText(text)) { setValue(null); } else { try { setValue(format.parse(text)); } catch (ParseException e) { throw new IllegalArgumentException("Invalid date string " + text, e); } } } public void setPattern(String pattern) { this.format = new SimpleDateFormat(pattern); } public DateFormat getFormat() { return format; } public void setFormat(DateFormat format) { this.format = format; } }