#1272 - ENH: Add built in support for Joda Period

src/test/java/io/ebeaninternal/server/type/ScalarTypeJodaPeriodTest.java

@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+package io.ebeaninternal.server.type;
+
+import org.joda.time.Period;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
+
+public class ScalarTypeJodaPeriodTest {
+
+  private ScalarTypeJodaPeriod scalarType = new ScalarTypeJodaPeriod();
+
+  @Test
+  public void getLength() {
+    assertThat(scalarType.getLength()).isEqualTo(50);
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void formatAndParse() {
+
+    Period original = Period.years(1).plusMonths(2).plusDays(4)
+      .plusHours(12).plusMinutes(19).plusSeconds(20);
+
+    String value = scalarType.formatValue(original);
+    assertThat(value).isEqualTo("P1Y2M4DT12H19M20S");
+
+    Period period = scalarType.parse(value);
+    assertThat(period).isEqualTo(original);
+  }
+
+
+  @Test
+  public void convertFromDbString() {
+
+    Period original = Period.years(1).plusMonths(2).plusDays(4)
+      .plusHours(23).plusMinutes(19).plusSeconds(20).plusMillis(987);
+
+    String stringVal = scalarType.convertToDbString(original);
+    Period period = scalarType.convertFromDbString(stringVal);
+
+    assertThat(period).isEqualTo(original);
+  }
+
+}

src/test/java/org/tests/model/joda/BasicJodaEntity.java

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import io.ebean.annotation.CreatedTimestamp;
 import io.ebean.annotation.UpdatedTimestamp;
 import org.joda.time.DateTime;
 import org.joda.time.LocalDateTime;
+import org.joda.time.Period;
 
 import javax.persistence.Entity;
 import javax.persistence.Id;
@@ -23,6 +24,8 @@ public class BasicJodaEntity {
   @UpdatedTimestamp
   DateTime updated;
 
+  Period period;
+
   @Version
   LocalDateTime version;
 
@@ -42,6 +45,14 @@ public class BasicJodaEntity {
     this.name = name;
   }
 
+  public Period getPeriod() {
+    return period;
+  }
+
+  public void setPeriod(Period period) {
+    this.period = period;
+  }
+
   public LocalDateTime getCreated() {
     return created;
   }

src/test/java/org/tests/model/joda/TestJodaInsertUpdate.java

@@ -4,9 +4,13 @@ import io.ebean.BaseTestCase;
 import io.ebean.Ebean;
 import org.joda.time.DateTime;
 import org.joda.time.LocalDateTime;
+import org.joda.time.Period;
 import org.junit.Test;
 
-import static org.junit.Assert.*;
+import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertNotNull;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertNotSame;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertSame;
 
 public class TestJodaInsertUpdate extends BaseTestCase {
 
@@ -27,6 +31,7 @@ public class TestJodaInsertUpdate extends BaseTestCase {
 
     Thread.sleep(10);
     e0.setName("bar");
+    e0.setPeriod(Period.years(12).plusDays(1));
     Ebean.save(e0);
 
     LocalDateTime created1 = e0.getCreated();
@@ -36,5 +41,10 @@ public class TestJodaInsertUpdate extends BaseTestCase {
     assertSame(created, created1);
     assertNotSame(updated, updated1);
     assertNotSame(version, version1);
+
+
+    BasicJodaEntity found = Ebean.find(BasicJodaEntity.class, e0.getId());
+
+    assertThat(found.getPeriod()).isEqualTo(e0.getPeriod());
   }
 }