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Sightly Extension to format dates

  • October 16, 2015
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With JSP/JSTL there is the tag <fmt:formatDate> to format dates according to the current locale. With Sightly there is currently not such an extension and also custom extensions are not supported (see questions at http://dev.day.com/content/ddc/en/gems/introduction-to-sightly/_jcr_content/par/download_0/file.res/Introduction%20to%20Sightly%20Q_As.pdf). What should we do to do date formatting properly. I don't want to do the formatting in my model class because that is clearly functionality belonging to the view.

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Best answer by PaulMcMahon

Can't you just create a reusable function in the Use API. You could create a JavaScript file or Java class and then pass in the data and the format String as parameters just as you would with <fmt:formatDate>. 

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PaulMcMahonAccepted solution
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October 16, 2015

Can't you just create a reusable function in the Use API. You could create a JavaScript file or Java class and then pass in the data and the format String as parameters just as you would with <fmt:formatDate>. 

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