pkg/intl/lib/date_symbol_data_http_request.dart

// Copyright (c) 2012, the Dart project authors.  Please see the AUTHORS file
// for details. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a
// BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.

/**
 * This file should be imported, along with date_format.dart in order to read
 * locale data via http requests to a web server..
 */
library date_symbol_data_json;

import 'dart:async';
import 'date_symbols.dart';
import 'src/lazy_locale_data.dart';
import 'src/date_format_internal.dart';
import 'src/http_request_data_reader.dart';
import 'intl.dart';

part "src/data/dates/localeList.dart";

/**
 * This should be called for at least one [locale] before any date formatting
 * methods are called. It sets up the lookup for date symbols using [url].
 * The [url] parameter should end with a "/". For example,
 *   "http://localhost:8000/dates/"
 */
Future initializeDateFormatting(String locale, String url) {
  var reader = new HTTPRequestDataReader('${url}symbols/');
  initializeDateSymbols(() => new LazyLocaleData(
      reader, _createDateSymbol, availableLocalesForDateFormatting));
  var reader2 = new HTTPRequestDataReader('${url}patterns/');
  initializeDatePatterns(() => new LazyLocaleData(
      reader2, (x) => x, availableLocalesForDateFormatting));
  var actualLocale = Intl.verifiedLocale(locale,
      (l) => availableLocalesForDateFormatting.contains(l));
  return initializeIndividualLocaleDateFormatting(
      (symbols, patterns) {
        return Future.wait([
            symbols.initLocale(actualLocale),
            patterns.initLocale(actualLocale)]);
      });
}

/** Defines how new date symbol entries are created. */
DateSymbols _createDateSymbol(Map map) {
  return new DateSymbols.deserializeFromMap(map);
}