Change data appearing from integer to hh:mm:ss

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#1

Hi,

I want to store an intervall. It can be months, weeks, hours, minutes and seconds. But maybe only hours, minutes and seconds. It is a regularity, repeat time, example after every 8h 34m an action runs. Not cuba action, not in my project, I only stores it’s repeat time.

So I guess I should store it in seconds, as integer. Just should display in a clear format, converted. First only the displaying the question, maybe later the edit.
Example: the integer is 26700 and in the browser sceen table shows 7h 25m.
Any idea about it? Or maybe a built-in Cuba function? :smiley:

Thanks

#2

Hi Karolina,

I’ve added example of a time interval datatype to this sample project. See IntervalDatatype.java, registration of the datatype in metadata.xml and usage in the Order entity.

See also documentation on creating custom datatypes.

#3

Thank you so much! It is so much perfect!
I wanted to change the append, and I guess I should the compile too. Am I right?

#4

One more question.
What is it good for?


private static final Pattern PATTERN = Pattern.compile("((\\d{1,})\\s*d)*\\s*((\\d{1,})\\s*h)*\\s*((\\d{1,})\\s*m)*\\s*((\\d{1,})\\s*s)*");

Just because I want to expand this to months and weeks, e.g.: 2 month 3 week, 4 hour …

#5

The regex above is for expressions like “10d 5h 20m 40s”, or “5h 20m”.

I’d suggest installing a regex tester plugin for IntelliJ like “RegexPlugin”, so you will be able to create and test regex easily. See also Pattern (Java Platform SE 8 )