[SLING-9989] Change date formatting to use java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Scripting HTL Engine 1.4.6-1.4.0
• Fix Version/s: Scripting HTL Engine 1.4.12-1.4.0
• Component/s: Scripting
• Assignee: Dirk Rudolph
• Reporter: Julian Sedding
• Created: 09/Dec/20 08:47
• Updated: 01/Feb/22 10:17
• Resolved: 22/Jul/21 15:32

Description

As discussed in SLING-9983, it would be nice to change the implementation from using java.text.DateFormat to using java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter.

cc kwin

Issue Links

• causes: SLING-11108 org.apache.sling.scripting.sightly.impl.engine.extension.FormatFilterExtensionTest#testDateFormatWithEscapedCharacters fails on newer JDKs
• relates to: SLING-10651 HTL support java.time.Instant as date object