There’s More to Life Than Strings: Working with Data Types - Stripes...and Java Web Development is Fun Again - page 96

JSP

Action Bean

<s:format
value="${actionBean.name}"/>

public T getName()

String Formatter<T> T

Figure 5.3: Formatting

Dates
Examples are sometimes worth 1,000 explanations. Here are the differ-
ent combinations of the format types and format patterns understood
by the date formatter, with the results of formatting a value of March 2,
2008 at 2:42 PM EST :
Pattern/Type "date" "time"

"short" 3/2/08 2:42 PM

"medium" Mar 2, 2008 2:42:00 PM

"long"

March 2, 2008 2:42:00 PM EST

"full" Sunday, March 2, 2008 2:42:00 PM EST

Pattern/Type "datetime"

"short" 3/2/08 2:42 PM

"medium"

Mar 2, 2008 2:42:00 PM

"long" March 2, 2008 2:42:00 PM EST

"full"

Sunday, March 2, 2008 2:42:00 PM EST

The formatPattern= may also be any pattern that is understood by Simple-
DateFormat , such as "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm" , which would return "2008-03-02
14:42" in the previous example.

Numbers
The following are the different format types and patterns understood
by the number formatter, with the results of formatting a value of
2468.24682468 :
Pattern/Type

"number" "percentage" "currency"

"plain" 2468.247 246825% $2468.25

"integer" 2,468 246,825% $2,468

"decimal"

2,468.246825 246,824.682468% $2,468.246825