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Adjusting a Date object in Visual Age for Java

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Terrence Vega

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Nickname: terryvega
Registered: Dec, 2002

Adjusting a Date object in Visual Age for Java

Posted: Dec 3, 2002 10:40 AM

In my code I have many lines such as this:
java.util.Date myDate = new java.util.Date();
This sets myDate to the current processing date.

Without changing anything to this (as there are far too many lines to change), I wish to set every new Date instantiation to a date in the past, such as half a year ago.

Is anyone upto the challenge?

P.S. If I go to the java API code in VAJ, it says I cannot modify the return value of the Date.

Matt Gerrans

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Nickname: matt
Registered: Feb, 2002

Re: Adjusting a Date object in Visual Age for Java

Posted: Dec 3, 2002 11:39 AM

Here are a couple ideas:

- Change your computer's date back six months and run the program! ;-)

- Okay, this one is a little better: First, change every place where you have "new java.util.Date();" to "getADate();" (or whatever method name you prefer). This should be an easy search-and-replace operation with your editor, or sed, or whatever. In this new method, get the current date, modify it as necessary (or create another one based on it) and return the tweaked date.

If this needs to be done across classes, you may need a helper object to host the method and your original replacement above might be something along the lines of replacing "new java.util.Date();" with "com.myfirm.utils.FakeDate.getInstance().getTweakedDate();".

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