Coherence cannot handle year in dates of 9999 ?

Question

Hi,
I have been running into an issue with dates in coherence. We have some data which specifies a date of 01/01/9999 to indicate that the date does not expire.
However this results in errors when loading into coherence as follows:-
java.io.IOException: year is likely out of range: 9999
I then found this related thread:-
Storing large DateTime values from .NET
Is it really true that coherence cannot handle a valid date ???? Why would you possibly validate a year in the first place given 9999 is actually a valid year !.
TIA
Martin

Answer 1

Hi,
What is the code that causes the error? What version of Coherence are you using?
I can serialize/deserialize the date you have without seeing any problems. For example...
Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();
c.set(9999, Calendar.JANUARY, 1);
Date d = c.getTime();
ConfigurablePofContext pofContext = new ConfigurablePofContext("coherence-pof-config.xml");
Binary b = ExternalizableHelper.toBinary(d, pofContext);
Date d2 = (Date) ExternalizableHelper.fromBinary(b, pofContext);
System.out.println(d2);The above code works fine when I ran it with Coherence 3.7.1.6
If I have a class that implements PortableObject with a date field set to 1/1/9999 this also serializes without any problems.
JK