[FLEX-15733] static method DateFormatter.parseDateString() should be public

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Adobe Flex SDK 3.0 (Release)
• Component/s: Formatters
• Environment: Affected OS(s): All OS Platforms; Affected OS(s): All OS Platforms; Browser: Internet Explorer 7.x; Language Found: English
• Assignee: Adobe JIRA
• Reporter: Adobe JIRA
• Created: 17/Sep/08 06:07
• Updated: 13/May/09 14:30
• Resolved: 29/Mar/09 22:17

Description

Problem:
Currently the DateFormatter class provides the ability to go from an ActionScript Date to a formatted string, but not from a formatted string to an ActionScript Date.
This issue can be found in the system as imported bug SDK-644 from (Planning) SDK 3.0 Candidates, but the issue doesn't contain a discription and was deferred without description.

Solution:
Make DateFormatter.parseDateString() public.

Example:
//date to string
var date:Date = new Date();
var formatter:DateFormatter = new DateFormatter();
formatter.formatString = "MM/DD/YYYY L:NN A";
trace(formatter.format(date));

//string to date works, but only if parseDateString is public
var formatter:DateFormatter = new DateFormatter();
formatter.formatString = "YYYY-MM-DDTHH:NN:SS.000";
var date:Date = DateFormatter.parseDateString(text);

//It would be more consitent though with date to string if the parseDateString were not static:
var formatter:DateFormatter = new DateFormatter();
formatter.formatString = "YYYY-MM-DDTHH:NN:SS.000";
var date:Date = formatter.parseDateString(text);

Workaround (if any):
Create a class that extends DateFormatter that exposes parseDateString()