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<h1 class="page"><code>ClockService</code></h1>
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<p>Most applications deal with dates and times in one way or another.
For example, if an <code>Order</code> is placed, then the <code>Customer</code> may have 30 days to pay the <code>Invoice</code>, otherwise a penalty may be levied.</p>
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<p>However, such date/time related functionality can quickly complicate automated testing: "today+30" will be a different value every time the test is run.</p>
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<p>Even disregarding testing, there may be a requirement to ensure that date/times are obtained from an NNTP server (rather than the system PC).
While instantiating a <code>java.util.Date</code> to current the current time is painless enough, we would not want complex technical logic for querying an NNTP server spread around domain logic code.</p>
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<p>Therefore it&#8217;s common to provide a domain service whose responsibility is to provide the current time.
This service can be injected into any domain object (and can be mocked out for unit testing).
Apache Isis provides such a facade through the <code>ClockService</code>.</p>
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<p>The API defined by <code>ClockService</code> is:</p>
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<pre class="highlightjs highlight"><code class="language-java hljs" data-lang="java">@Service
@Named("isisApplib.ClockService")
@Order(OrderPrecedence.MIDPOINT)
@Primary
@Qualifier("Default")
public class ClockService {
public java.time.LocalDate now() {
return Clock.getTimeAsLocalDate();
}
public java.time.LocalDateTime nowAsLocalDateTime() {
return Clock.getTimeAsLocalDateTime();
}
public java.time.OffsetDateTime nowAsOffsetDateTime() {
return Clock.getTimeAsOffsetDateTime();
}
public java.sql.Timestamp nowAsJavaSqlTimestamp() {
return Clock.getTimeAsJavaSqlTimestamp();
}
public long nowAsMillis() {
return Clock.getEpochMillis();
}
public java.util.Date nowAsJavaUtilDate() {
return new java.util.Date(nowAsMillis());
}
public org.joda.time.DateTime nowAsJodaDateTime() {
return Clock.getTimeAsJodaDateTime();
}
public org.joda.time.LocalDate nowAsJodaLocalDate() {
final DateTimeZone timeZone = DateTimeZone.forTimeZone(TimeZone.getDefault());
return new org.joda.time.LocalDate(nowAsMillis(), timeZone);
}
}</code></pre>
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<p>Note that this domain service is also used by the framework itself to obtain the time, so it acts as an SPI as well.</p>
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<p>This class (<code>o.a.i.applib.services.clock.ClockService</code>) is also the default implementation.
The time provided by this default implementation is based on the system clock.</p>
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