[CAUSEWAY-3803] Allow the display format of dates and times to be specified as a pattern.

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.1.0, 3.1.0
• Fix Version/s: 3.2.0
• Component/s: Core
• Assignee: Daniel Keir Haywood
• Reporter: Daniel Keir Haywood
• Created: 09/Jul/24 13:58
• Updated: 04/Jan/25 23:01
• Resolved: 04/Jan/25 23:01

Description

we currently have a lot of options for the format of temporal types when editing, but not much for display.

Seemingly, we use:

DateTimeFormatter.ofLocalizedDateTime(dateFormatStyle, timeFormatStyle)

where the format styles are looked up from DateFormatStyleFacet, but otherwise default to simply medium.

In practice, this means "Jan 23, 2024" and similar.

 

For more flexibility, provide a pattern that can be used as an override.