DateAndTime class needs friend function

[Peter Peterson]

To allow for easier simple debugging (i.e. print statements), DateAndTime should have a friend method for std::ostream that prints to_ISO8601_string(). The function declaration should be something like:

friend ostream & operator<<( ostream & os, const DateAndTime obj);

[Janik Zikovsky]

It already has an << operator that prints a simple string - is that good enough?

  void test_stream_operator()
  {
    DateAndTime a;
    std::ostringstream message;
    a = DateAndTime("1990-01-02 03:04:05.678");
    message << a;
    TS_ASSERT_EQUALS( message.str(), a.to_simple_string() );
  }

[Janik Zikovsky]

P.S. example above prints 1990-Jan-02 03:04:05.678000000

[Peter Peterson]

I missed that at the end of the file.

It needs to be declared a friend so it can be called from anywhere.

[Janik Zikovsky]

Fixed in revision [8220]

[Stuart Campbell]

This ticket has been transferred to github issue ​2951