How to introduce a variable date formatting in BeanIO xml file?

Question

Here's my BeanIO xml configuration file:

<beanio xmlns="http://www.beanio.org/2011/01"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.beanio.org/2011/01 http://www.beanio.org/2011/01    /mapping.xsd">
  <stream name="Test" format="delimited">
    <record name="TestRow" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="unbounded" class="com.company.TestRow">
      <field name="transactionDate" type="date" format="MM/dd/yyyy"/>
      <field name="userId" type="string"/>
      <field name="clientName" type="string"/>
    </record>
  </stream>
</beanio>

The issue with it is that I need the "MM/dd/yyyy" to be dynamically set by the class that calls this xml file to parse the file. Because the date format is dependent on the user setup.

Can that be done somehow?

Answer 1

Try this, it should work.

Define a type handler for default DateTypeHandler in the mapping file.

<typeHandler name="dateTypeHandler" class="org.beanio.types.DateTypeHandler" />

Use that handler on your field. That is all you need.

<field name="transactionDate" typeHandler="dateTypeHandler" format="MM/dd/yyyy"/>