Description
Format Date object in different ways.
The date tag will allow you to format a Date in a quick and easy way. You can specify a custom format (eg. "dd/MM/yyyy hh:mm"), you can generate easy readable notations (like "in 2 hours, 14 minutes"), or you can just fall back on a predefined format with key 'struts.date.format' in your properties file.
If that key is not defined, it will finally fall back to the default DateFormat.MEDIUM formatting.
Note: If the requested Date object isn't found on the stack, a blank will be returned.
Configurable attributes are :-
- name
- nice
- format
Following how the date component will work, depending on the value of nice attribute (which by default is false) and the format attribute.
Condition 1: With nice attribute as true
| i18n key | default |
| struts.date.format.past | {0} ago |
| struts.date.format.future | in {0} |
| struts.date.format.seconds | an instant |
| struts.date.format.minutes | {0,choice,1#one minute|1<{0} minutes} |
| struts.date.format.hours | {0,choice,1#one hour|1<{0} hours}{1,choice,0#|1#, one minute|1<, {1} minutes} |
| struts.date.format.days | {0,choice,1#one day|1<{0} days}{1,choice,0#|1#, one hour|1<, {1} hours} |
| struts.date.format.years | {0,choice,1#one year|1<{0} years}{1,choice,0#|1#, one day|1<, {1} days} |
Condition 2: With nice attribute as false and format attribute is specified eg. dd/MM/yyyyy
In this case the format attribute will be used.
Condition 3: With nice attribute as false and no format attribute is specified
| i18n key | default |
| struts.date.format | if one is not found DateFormat.MEDIUM format will be used |
Parameters
Name |
Required |
Default |
Evaluated |
Type |
Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| format | false | false | String | Date or DateTime format pattern | |
| id | false | true | String | id for referencing element. For UI and form tags it will be used as HTML id attribute | |
| name | true | true | String | The date value to format | |
| nice | false | false | true | Boolean | Whether to print out the date nicely |
Examples
<s:date name="person.birthday" format="dd/MM/yyyy" /> <s:date name="person.birthday" format="%{getText('some.i18n.key')}" /> <s:date name="person.birthday" nice="true" /> <s:date name="person.birthday" />