Hi Paul,
You could try creating your own wrapper class around SimpleDateFormat.
The wrapper would have the signatures acceptable to @PathParam and
would delegate the parsing to SimpleDateFormat. I haven't tried it but
that's where I'd start.
Sean
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 6:49 AM, Paul <nibin.cse_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> For PathParam, the following are the valid paratemer types.
>
> 1. Primitive types.
> 2. Types that have a constructor that accepts a single String argument.
> 3. Types that have a static method named valueOf or fromString with a single
> String argument
> that return an instance of the type. If both methods are present then
> valueOf MUST be used unless
> the type is an enum in which case fromStringMUST be used.
> 4. List<T>, Set<T>, or SortedSet<T>, where T satisfies 2 or 3 above.
>
> Since java.util.Date has a constructor that accepts string, I think
> java.util.Date could be used as the parameter type.
>
> But public Date(String s) constructor is deprecated.
>
> And I don't think the date in the format (2011%06%17) is valid. The parsing
> of the date string might fail. But if you provide the date in an acceptable
> format, then I guess, it should work fine.
>
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