There needs to be support for java.time in java.text.MessageFormat (original) (raw)

Nick Williams nicholas+openjdk at nicholaswilliams.net
Mon Jun 17 10:05:35 UTC 2013

Thanks. I have filed two different bugs for these two different problems.

On Jun 17, 2013, at 4:20 AM, Stephen Colebourne wrote:

The standard JDK bug tracker should be used to keep track of these.

For info, Oracle is in control of integration of JSR-310 into other APIs, not JSR-310. Stephen

On 17 June 2013 09:40, Nick Williams <nicholas+openjdk at nicholaswilliams.net> wrote:

On Jun 15, 2013, at 1:34 PM, Nick Williams wrote:

Currently, MessageFormat /only/ supports SimpleDateFormat and instances of java.util.Date or java.util.Calendar for date/time values. Because of this, it's impossible to use Java 8 date/time types with any of the i18n and localization tools.

MessageFormat really needs support for types in java.time. Should I file a bug somewhere about this (where?), or is this message enough to get this going? I'm not even sure how it should work. I'm not sure how MessageFormat can know whether a SimpleDateFormat string or a DateTimeFormatter string is being supplied. Possibly, validation of the format string must be delayed until either a Date/Calendar or a java.time type is supplied for formatting. Looks like there also needs to be java.time support in JAXB. I have a POJO with an @XmlElement "lastModified" of type java.time.Instant, and it just gets printed out (the value is ignored). It should be printed out ISO 8601-formatted.

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