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Author(s): Cazacu Mihai
Current Release: 0.3
Grails Version: 1.1.1 > *
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grails install-plugin pretty-time

PrettyTime Plugin

This plugin allows you to display human readable, relative timestamps. It is based on PrettyTime OpenSource time formatting library.

Requirements

  • Grails Version: 1.0 and above
  • JDK: 1.5 and above

Installation

grails install-plugin pretty-time

Usage

<prettytime:display date="${someDate}" />

Generates timestamps like:

"right now", "2 days ago", or "3 months from now"

Internationalization

  • check the "message.properties" file from the plugin directory.

Tag attributes

AttributeDescription
dateThe date object to format.
capitalizeCapitalize the output text (default: false). Ex: "moments ago" -> "Moments ago".
showTimeShow the time (default: false). Ex: "2 days ago, 12:00:25 AM".
formatThe format to use for the date (default: "hh:mm:ss a"). The default value can be modified adding "plugin.prettytime.format" property to "message.properties" file).

Version History

  • 0.3 - Upgraded pretty-time library and added 2 tag attributes: "showTime" and "format".
  • 0.2.1 - Fixed blank spaces.
  • 0.2 - Added support for DateTime class of Joda-Time; added "capitalize" tag attribute.
  • 0.1 - First official release.

Suggestions, comments or bugs

Feel free to submit questions or comments to the Grails users mailing list. Alternatively you can contact me directly - cazacugmihai at gmail dot com

Please report any issues to the Grails users mailing list and/or write up an issue in JIRA at http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GRAILSPLUGINS under the Grails-PrettyTime component.