public DateFieldTemplate() 
{
    dataRowDataSource = new DataRowDataSource();
    dateFilter = new SimpleDateFormatFilter();
    dateFilter.setDataSource(dataRowDataSource);
    stringFilter = new StringFilter();
    stringFilter.setDataSource(dateFilter);
}

Creates a new date field template.

 public Object clone() throws CloneNotSupportedException 
{
    final DateFieldTemplate template = (DateFieldTemplate) super.clone();
    template.stringFilter = (StringFilter) stringFilter.clone();
    template.dateFilter = (SimpleDateFormatFilter) template.stringFilter.getDataSource();
    template.dataRowDataSource = (DataRowDataSource) template.dateFilter.getDataSource();
    return template;
}

Clones this template.

 protected DataRowDataSource getDataRowDataSource() 
{
    return dataRowDataSource;
}

Returns the data-row datasource.

 protected SimpleDateFormatFilter getDateFilter() 
{
    return dateFilter;
}

Returns the date filter.

 public SimpleDateFormat getDateFormat() 
{
    return (SimpleDateFormat) getDateFilter().getFormatter();
}

Returns the date formatter.

 public String getField() 
{
    return getDataRowDataSource().getDataSourceColumnName();
}

Returns the field name.

 public String getFormat() 
{
    return getDateFilter().getFormatString();
}

Returns the date format string.

 public FormatSpecification getFormatString(ExpressionRuntime runtime,
    Element element,
    FormatSpecification formatSpecification) 
{
    return dateFilter.getFormatString(runtime, element, formatSpecification);
}

 public String getFormula() 
{
    return dataRowDataSource.getFormula();
}

Returns the formula used to compute the value of the data source.

 public String getNullValue() 
{
    return getStringFilter().getNullValue();
}

Returns the string that represents null values.

 public Object getRawValue(ExpressionRuntime runtime,
    Element element) 
{
    return dateFilter.getRawValue(runtime, element);
}

 protected StringFilter getStringFilter() 
{
    return stringFilter;
}

Returns the string filter.

 public Object getValue(ExpressionRuntime runtime,
    Element element) 
{
    return getStringFilter().getValue(runtime, element);
}

Returns the current value for the data source.

 public  void setDateFormat(SimpleDateFormat dateFormat) 
{
    getDateFilter().setFormatter(dateFormat);
}

Sets the date formatter.

 public  void setField(String field) 
{
    getDataRowDataSource().setDataSourceColumnName(field);
}

Sets the field name.

 public  void setFormat(String format) 
{
    getDateFilter().setFormatString(format);
}

Sets the date format string.

 public  void setFormula(String formula) 
{
    dataRowDataSource.setFormula(formula);
}

Defines the formula used to compute the value of this data source.

 public  void setNullValue(String nullValue) 
{
    getStringFilter().setNullValue(nullValue);
}

Sets the string that represents null values.