Introduce "never" as parseable date

For configuration parameter like "gc.pruneexpire" we need to understand
the value "never". Never is handled as a date so far into the future
that it will never happen. The actual value currently used is the
constant GitDateParser.NEVER.

Change-Id: I7744eaee9bf5026da517151c212c88325c348d6c
Signed-off-by: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>
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Robin Rosenberg 2012-09-18 19:23:17 +02:00
parent 84e171fbab
commit e0a3091af7
2 changed files with 21 additions and 0 deletions

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@ -76,6 +76,17 @@ public void yesterday() throws ParseException {
Assert.assertEquals(cal.getTime(), parse);
}
@Test
public void never() throws ParseException {
GregorianCalendar cal = new GregorianCalendar(SystemReader
.getInstance().getTimeZone(), SystemReader.getInstance()
.getLocale());
Date parse = GitDateParser.parse("never", cal);
Assert.assertEquals(GitDateParser.NEVER, parse);
parse = GitDateParser.parse("never", null);
Assert.assertEquals(GitDateParser.NEVER, parse);
}
@Test
public void now() throws ParseException {
String dateStr = "2007-02-21 15:35:00 +0100";

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@ -62,6 +62,12 @@
* understands.
*/
public class GitDateParser {
/**
* The Date representing never. Though this is a concrete value, most
* callers are adviced to avoid depending on the actual value.
*/
public static final Date NEVER = new Date(Long.MAX_VALUE);
// Since SimpleDateFormat instances are expensive to instantiate they should
// be cached. Since they are also not threadsafe they are cached using
// ThreadLocal.
@ -113,6 +119,7 @@ private ParseableSimpleDateFormat(String formatStr) {
* relative formats (e.g. "yesterday") the caller can specify the reference
* date. These types of strings can be parsed:
* <ul>
* <li>"never"</li>
* <li>"now"</li>
* <li>"yesterday"</li>
* <li>"(x) years|months|weeks|days|hours|minutes|seconds ago"<br>
@ -146,6 +153,9 @@ public static Date parse(String dateStr, Calendar now)
throws ParseException {
dateStr = dateStr.trim();
Date ret;
if ("never".equalsIgnoreCase(dateStr))
return NEVER;
ret = parse_relative(dateStr, now);
if (ret != null)
return ret;