NetBeans Code Templates ${date}?

Question

I have this code template in Eclipse

@since ${date}

when entered i get something like this :

@since 4.8.2009

Answer 1

Your snippet looks like freemarker code. This is used in Netbeans for file templates (Tools -> Templates). If you put ${date} in a file template it will get transformed when the file is created to the current date. If you're trying to use it as a code template I don't know how that works.

Answer 2

I'm pretty sure this is not possible in Netbeans, or at least not worth the amount of trouble. It's possible that you could author your own Netbeans module, add a code template to the module (in which you might be able to put the ${date} as an extra variable, I'm not sure), and then add the module to Netbeans. But you could also just type the date in, which, unless you type it several thousand times per day, would probably take less time.

Answer 3

Something like the following example should doing the job :

${date?date?string("yyyy")}.${date?date?string("MM")}.${date?date?string("dd")}

• yyyy => year on 4 elements (ex: 2012)
• MM => Month on 2 elements (ex: march -> 03)
• dd => Day of the month on 2 elements (ex: 23)
• . => separator you want to separate each fields (ex: - or / or . or smth else) You should have to check about available format somewhere in the netbeans help (sorry I don't find out informations about this for now). I see that's a very old post, but if it may usefull for someone ... regards. ollie314

Answer 4

Not wanting to raise the dead with this post, but I thought it worth mentioning so I signed up to SO specifically to clarify, since Ollie314 saved me a lot of time.

The format ollie314 used is correct (for version 7.1+ at least) BUT just to be clear, if it's not displaying correctly it may be due to your system locale settings, if outside of USA. Be sure to include <#setting locale="en_AU"> (replace en_AU with your locale id) in the template you are editing, prior to the date?date?string cast declaration, or it will not work. If you place it in the user settings it won't cast the date string in the template and you will generate errors in your template output.

The documentation from Netbeans isn't particularly clear on that. Still, best IDE ever :)

Answer 5

Note: With NetBeans 6.5/6.7, if you do not find that template, you could create it.

See this tutorial.

Answer 6

Inserting ${date?date?string("yyyy")} within your template will do the trick (if you want year only)