org.gvsig.tools.dataTypes.impl.coercion

Class AbstractCoerceToDate

java.lang.Object

org.gvsig.tools.dataTypes.impl.coercion.AbstractCoerceToDate

All Implemented Interfaces:

DataTypesManager.Coercion, DataTypesManager.CoercionWithLocale

Direct Known Subclasses:

CoerceToDate, CoerceToDateTime, CoerceToTime

public abstract class AbstractCoerceToDate
extends java.lang.Object
implements DataTypesManager.CoercionWithLocale

Abstract implementation for Date coercion classes. If the value is not a Date, it will use the Object.toString() method to convert the resulting String to a Date object.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
AbstractCoerceToDate()

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
java.lang.Object	coerce(java.lang.Object value)
protected java.lang.Object	coerce(java.lang.Object value, java.text.DateFormat dateFormatter)
java.lang.Object	coerce(java.lang.Object value, java.util.Locale locale)
protected abstract java.text.DateFormat	createFormatter(java.util.Locale locale) Returns the DateFormat to apply when the value to coerce is not of Date type and it will be parsed as String.
protected abstract java.lang.String	getDateType() Returns the name of the Date type being coerced.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

AbstractCoerceToDate

public AbstractCoerceToDate()

Method Detail

coerce

public java.lang.Object coerce(java.lang.Object value)
                        throws CoercionException

Specified by:

coerce in interface DataTypesManager.Coercion

Throws:

CoercionException

coerce

public java.lang.Object coerce(java.lang.Object value,
                      java.util.Locale locale)
                        throws CoercionException

Specified by:

coerce in interface DataTypesManager.CoercionWithLocale

Throws:

CoercionException

coerce

protected java.lang.Object coerce(java.lang.Object value,
                      java.text.DateFormat dateFormatter)
                           throws CoercionException

Throws:

CoercionException

createFormatter

protected abstract java.text.DateFormat createFormatter(java.util.Locale locale)

Returns the DateFormat to apply when the value to coerce is not of Date type and it will be parsed as String.

Returns:

the DateFormat to apply to parse the value to coerce as String

getDateType

protected abstract java.lang.String getDateType()

Returns the name of the Date type being coerced. Ex: Date, DateTime, Time. Only used for description when an error is produced when coercing the value.

Returns:

the name of the Date type being coerced