Re: [OT] Storing Birth Date

[Mark Lowe]

I do string - calendar conversion in an action form, its gets and sets 
strings modifying a calendar object which can be then given to the 
action ready to be saved back to the model.

private Calendar dob = Calendar.getInstance();
public String getDayOfBirth() {
        int dayInt = dob.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);
        return Integer.parseInt(dayInt);
}
public void setDayOfBirth(String month) {
        int monthInt = Integer.parseInt(month);
        this.dob.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH,monthInt);
}
public Calendar getDob() {
        return dob;
}
public void setCalendar(Calendar dob) {
        this.dob = dob;
}
I should warn you that you need to validate input in a validate method 
to in case the day is out of range for the given calendar month. Unless 
you generate your select menus when the user changes the month and 
year.

Some folk will frown upon such practice and claim its not MVC, I could 
be wrong but I disagree. And also gets the action form doing a little 
more work.


Mark
On 26 Jun 2004, at 13:24, Eddie Yan wrote:
Anyone know what is the best practices to store a person
date of birth ? How should we design our detail object, JSP and 
database
in such way we don't have a messy approached to populate the day,
month and year in Action class to be able to display in JSP during 
UPDATE
process.

Currently, I have a JSP with combo box for day, month and year.
Using mySQL db, I set the dateOfBirth column to TIMESTAMP.
(Some told me to use DATE for this column).
Obviously TIMESTAMP have the limitation since date of birth before
Jan 1 1970 will be stored as 00000000000. Know any workaround
to this one ?


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