Alternative to OutputLocale

[Toby Hobson <to...@btinternet.com>]

Hi 

I was wondering if there is a way to display a localized date using an expansion, my idea is something like this: tml contains an expansion which references a Date object e.g. ${currentDate). Tapestry looks up the format for a date in the messageCatalogue and spits out the nicely formatted date. I'm assuming that at the moment tapestry converts an expansion to text by calling toString() on the object so is there any way to customize this and say "when you encounter a date, don't call toString() do xx"?

Thanks!

Toby

Re: Alternative to OutputLocale

["Filip S. Adamsen" <fs...@fsadev.com>]

Hi,

How about ${format:date-format=object.date} where date-format is picked 
up from the message catalogue? That's only one of many exciting 
possibilities with the format binding prefix:

http://wiki.apache.org/tapestry/Tapestry5HowToAddMessageFormatBindingPrefix

I use it like that all the time. :)

-Filip

On 2008-05-13 00:36, Toby Hobson wrote:
> Hi 
> 
> I was wondering if there is a way to display a localized date using an expansion, my idea is something like this: tml contains an expansion which references a Date object e.g. ${currentDate). Tapestry looks up the format for a date in the messageCatalogue and spits out the nicely formatted date. I'm assuming that at the moment tapestry converts an expansion to text by calling toString() on the object so is there any way to customize this and say "when you encounter a date, don't call toString() do xx"?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Toby
> 
> 

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