GPAUDITLOGGING-60: Make logged format configurable for Date/Calendar/DateTime values

[robertoschwald]

Original Reporter: smaerkle
Environment: grails 2.3.5
Version: Grails-AuditLogging 0.5.5.3
Migrated From: http://jira.grails.org/browse/GPAUDITLOGGING-60

We use an audited domain object that is manipulated by a webservice.

Logging for Date type columns is ugly, since in our case, oldValue is of Timestamp or Date type (hibernate mapping of a Date type), newValue is an XMLGregorianCalendar (cxf mapping of a Date type).
Since Auditlog uses toString(), the entries differ in format.

Taken the date_created column into account, there are three different date formats involved in a single audit_log row, e.g.:

date_created
2014-03-19 15:04:32.137
new_value
Tue Mar 18 15:04:31 CET 2014
old_value
2014-03-20 00:00:00.0

We'd like to see the String representation for Dates configurable (for example by a SimpleDateFormat format String).

[robertoschwald]

roos said:
PR welcome.