[udig-devel] Re: [Geoserver-devel] We're generating invalid dates in GML

[Justin Deoliveira <jdeolive@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yup. The new bindings use the jaxb data binding classes to specifically
serialize as xml.

Andrea Aime wrote:
> Justin Deoliveira ha scritto:
>> Hmmm, I am surprised the wfs 1.0 cite tests pass as they do a lot of
>> testing against dates... But i guess that is just date and not datetime
>> so that makes sense.
> 
> Hmm... that's suprising nonetheless... attributes encoding in Geotools
> FeatureTranslator is handled in FeatureTranslator.handleAttribute:
> 
> if (Geometry.class.isAssignableFrom(value.getClass())) {
>      geometryTranslator.encode((Geometry) value, srsName);
> } else {
>      String text = value.toString();
>      contentHandler.characters(text.toCharArray(), 0,
>          text.length());
> }
> 
> Sooo.... it seems to me it was working only because of sheer luck? :-)
> 
> Looking at the FeatureTypeEncoder, every subclass of java.util.Date
> will be turned into a xs:datetime, so I guess wfs 1.0 passed only
> because we use Postgis as the backing store, which was configured
> to use a date type, and returned as a result a java.sql.Date that
> toStrings to something which is in the format CCYY-MM-dd, apparently
> another format supported by xs:datetime.
> 
> Cheers
> Andrea
> 
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