[JDO-547] api2 ObjectIdentityTest.testStringNullDateConstructor fails due to unexpected date format in different locales

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: JDO 2 maintenance release 1 (2.1)
• Fix Version/s: JDO 2 maintenance release 1 (2.1)
• Component/s: api, api2-legacy
• Assignee: Michael Bouschen
• Reporter: Michael Bouschen
• Created: 25/Oct/07 15:03
• Updated: 14/Jun/10 11:01
• Resolved: 19/Nov/07 06:50

Description

Method testStringNullDateConstructor of api2 test class ObjectIdentityTest uses a DateFormat instance obtained by DateFormat.getInstance(). This returns the default date/time formatter which is then used to parse a date in format "M/d/yy h:mm a".

This does not work in case the default date/time formatter uses a format different from "M/d/yy h:mm a", because of a different locale. E.g. the format for the German locale is "dd.MM.yy HH:mm". This leads to an exception when parsing the date string:
Testcase: testStringNullDateConstructor(javax.jdo.identity.ObjectIdentityTest): Caused an ERROR
Error parsing Date string "10/9/2007 4:26 PM" at position 2 using date format "dd.MM.yy HH:mm".
javax.jdo.JDOUserException: Error parsing Date string "10/9/2007 4:26 PM" at position 2 using date format "dd.MM.yy HH:mm".