Support Java 8 Dates in Job and Step Execution [BATCH-2590]

[spring-projects-issues]

Philippe Marschall opened BATCH-2590 and commented

Currently all timestamps on JobExecution and StepExecution are of type java.util.Date. It would be cool if instead they could be directly a Java 8 Date Time API type, OffsetDateTime and ZonedDateTime are obvious candidates. Ideally the data type of the corresponding database would be changed from TIMESTAMP to TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE as well.

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[ptahchiev]

Yep +1 here. And also consider changing the job parameter types to be java8 Date Time API.

[javaHelper]

@benas - When Spring Batch 5.0.0 will be ready?

[fmbenhassine]

@javaHelper It depends on the release date of SF 6, but it is expected for the upcoming Fall.

[fmbenhassine]

While evaluating the change of timestamp fields to OffsetDateTime, several issues popped up, see #4209.

For this reason, we have decided to change the type from java.util.Date to java.time.LocalDateTime for now, and defer the feature of making those fields timezone aware to a future release.

[uyw4687]

@fmbenhassine ~Hello, it seem the datatype is still Date, not LocalDateTime on the API(JobParametersBuilder.addDate). Is this issue still ongoing or removed? I can contribute if you allow me to. Thanks.~

[uyw4687]

It's off-topic, but is there any rationale to exclude addBoolean on the JobParametersBuilder?

[davidkarlsen]

@fmbenhassine Hello, it seem the datatype is still Date, not LocalDateTime on the API(JobParametersBuilder.addDate). Is this issue still ongoing or removed? I can contribute if you allow me to. Thanks.

It's there?

new JobParametersBuilder()
            .addLocalDateTime(Config.JOB_PARAMETER_NAME_TO_DATE, LocalDateTime.now())

[uyw4687]

@davidkarlsen Sorry, I was using spring boot 2. I checked it from code. How about addBoolean? Should I make a new issue?