Date

Represents a calendar date. The year is unsigned so negative years are supported.

• Kotlin Definition: DateDefinition
• Kotlin Value: LocalDate
• Maryk Yaml Definition: Date

Usage options

• Value
• Map Key or Value
• Inside List/Set

Validation Options

• required - default true
• final - default false
• unique - default false
• minValue - default unset. Minimum value
• maxValue - default unset. Maximum value

Other options

• default - the default value to be used if value was not set.

Examples

Example of a Date property definition for use within a Model

val birthDate by date(
    index = 1u,
    required = false,
    final = true,
    unique = true,
    default = LocalDate(2018, 4, 30),
    minValue = LocalDate(1900, 1, 1),
    maxValue = LocalDate(2100, 1, 1)
)

Example of a Date property definition

val def = DateDefinition(
    required = false,
    final = true,
    unique = true,
    default = LocalDate(2018, 4, 30),
    minValue = LocalDate(1900, 1, 1),
    maxValue = LocalDate(2100, 1, 1)
)

Storage Byte representation

The date is represented by a 4 byte Int counting the amount of days from January 1st 1970

Transport Byte representation

The date is represented by a VarInt with the days since January 1st 1970

String representation

ISO8601 String: YYYY-MM-DD

Example: 2018-04-24