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Subject: Re: Review Request: Switch implementation of formatDate() and
From: "John Layt" <johnlayt () googlemail ! com>
Date: 2009-08-17 16:11:02
Message-ID: 20090817161102.8725.70066 () localhost
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(Updated 2009-08-17 16:11:02.234419)
Review request for kdelibs.
Changes
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Bump. Any comments? I need to commit this so I can put my Plasma Clock/Calendar changes up \
for review. If no response I'll commit Tuesday.
Summary (updated)
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[Bump. Any comments? I need to commit this so I can put my Plasma Clock/Calendar changes up \
for review. If no response I'll commit Tuesday.]
This review request is more for the refactoring model to see if there is a scenario I have \
missed, rather than for the code which is mostly a cleaned-up copy-and-paste.
Currently the KCalendarSystem implementations of formatDate() and readDate() point to the \
KLocale implementations. The problem with this is that the KLocale implementations in turn \
point to the global calendar when obtaining date components like month name or year. This is \
fine when you only ever show the global calendar, but if you want to show a different calendar \
at the same time, e.g. the Hebrew calendar alongside the global Gregorian, then calling \
KCalendarSystem::formatDate() on the Hebrew calendar returns the Gregorian date and not the \
Hebrew date as expected. There is a workaround to this by creating a new KLocale instance, \
creating the new KCalendarSystem using this and pointing the KLocale back at the new \
KCalendarSystem. This however is an ugly hack and we shouldn't expect the app programmer to \
know to do this. The app programmer would expect they can create a new KCalendarSystem \
instance and have the correct dates returned. Only if they want dates formatted in a different \
format than the global format should they have to create a new KLocale first.
The solution is to reverse the situation by moving the formatDate() and readDate() \
implementations from KLocale into KCalendarSystem, with the KLocale implementations pointing to \
its internal calendar instance for formatDate() and readDate(), and KCalendarSystem using its \
correct internal date component routines and pointing back to KLocale only to get the layout \
formats. Another advantage to this model is that any calendar system that needs non-standard \
date formatting rules can now override the formatDate() directly without adding complexity to \
the standard routines.
A couple of code clean-ups and bug-fixes are included, especially around FancyDate format and \
date validity checking.
Diffs
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trunk/KDE/kdelibs/kdecore/date/kcalendarsystem.h 1010188
trunk/KDE/kdelibs/kdecore/date/kcalendarsystem.cpp 1010188
trunk/KDE/kdelibs/kdecore/date/kcalendarsystemhebrew.cpp 1010188
trunk/KDE/kdelibs/kdecore/localization/klocale.cpp 1010188
Diff: http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/1285/diff
Testing
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All current klocaletest unit test cases for formatDaet(), formatDateTime(), readDate(), and \
readDateTime() pass the same as they did before the changes.
I have implemented support in the plasma calendar widget to allow the user to select what \
calendar system to display. Without this change the wrong dates are displayed/read. With \
these changes the correct dates are displayed/read.
Thanks,
John
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