org.eclipse.smila.datamodel.record
Class LiteralFormatHelper

java.lang.Object
  org.eclipse.smila.datamodel.record.LiteralFormatHelper

public class LiteralFormatHelper
extends java.lang.Object

helper class for formatting and parsing literal values. all methods synchronize on the used local formatter object, so you can use the shared instance. Using multiple instances may improve performance, though, because of less synchronization.

Author:

jschumacher

Field Summary

static LiteralFormatHelper

INSTANCE shared global helper instance.

Constructor Summary

LiteralFormatHelper()
create local instance.

Method Summary

java.lang.String	formatDate(java.util.Date value) format value as Date string.
java.lang.String	formatDateTime(java.util.Date value) format value as DateTime string.
java.lang.String	formatTime(java.util.Date value) format value as Time string.
java.util.Date	parseDate(java.lang.String dateString) parse a date string.
java.util.Date	parseDateTime(java.lang.String dateTimeString) parse datetime string.
java.util.Date	parseTime(java.lang.String timeString) parse a time string.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

INSTANCE

public static final LiteralFormatHelper INSTANCE

shared global helper instance.

Constructor Detail

LiteralFormatHelper

public LiteralFormatHelper()

create local instance.

Method Detail

formatDate

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

format value as Date string.

Parameters:

value - a date value

Returns:

formatted date.

formatTime

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

format value as Time string.

Parameters:

value - a time value

Returns:

formatted time string

formatDateTime

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

format value as DateTime string.

Parameters:

value - a datetime value

Returns:

formatted datetime string

parseDate

public java.util.Date parseDate(java.lang.String dateString)
                         throws java.text.ParseException

parse a date string.

Parameters:

dateString - a date string

Returns:

parsed Date

Throws:

java.text.ParseException - string has wrong format

parseTime

public java.util.Date parseTime(java.lang.String timeString)
                         throws java.text.ParseException

parse a time string.

Parameters:

timeString - a time value

Returns:

parsed Date

Throws:

java.text.ParseException - string has wrong format

parseDateTime

public java.util.Date parseDateTime(java.lang.String dateTimeString)
                             throws java.text.ParseException

parse datetime string.

Parameters:

dateTimeString - a datetime string

Returns:

parsed Date

Throws:

java.text.ParseException - string has wrong format