everyone! I am trying to think of a way to get a date input from user using LocalDate. I am getting an error that says "Type mismatch: cannot convert from String to LocalDate." I know why this error is happening but I want to know if there's another way to get around this.
String newName = stringInput("Enter a product name: ");
String newStore = stringInput("Enter a store name: ");
LocalDate newDate = dateInput("Enter a date (like 3/3/17): ");
double newCost = doubleInput("Enter cost: ");
/* the third parameter of Purchase2 is a LocalDate which I think is the reason for my error.
* Is there any way to get around this?
*/
Purchase2 purchase = new Purchase2(newName, newStore, newDate, newCost);
purchases.add(purchase); // I'm adding these to an ArrayList
/*
* This is the method I created for newDate
* I need to take the date as String and convert it to LocalDate
*/
public static String dateInput(String userInput) {
DateTimeFormatter dateFormat = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("M/d/yyyy");
LocalDate date = LocalDate.parse(userInput, dateFormat);
System.out.println(date);
return userInput;
}
I am really new to Java so any help will be appreciated! Thank you!
Change your return of dateInput to LocalDate
public static LocalDate dateInput(String userInput) {
DateTimeFormatter dateFormat = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("M/d/yyyy");
LocalDate date = LocalDate.parse(userInput, dateFormat);
System.out.println(date);
return date ;
}
And modify :
LocalDate newDate = dateInput(stringInput("Enter a date (like 3/3/17): "));
Beside that you need care about yyyy formatter
Related
String date = "08/02/2022 Tuesday";
DateTimeFormatter LONG_DATE_FORMAT_ddMMyyyyEEEE = ofPattern("dd/MM/yyyy EEEE");
LocalDate.parse(date, LONG_DATE_FORMAT_ddMMyyyyEEEE);
I'm getting a DateTimeParseException with the following message: Text 08/02/2022 Tuesday' could not be parsed at index 11.
I suppose this is an issue with the EEEE side of my format, but I can't seem to understand what should replace it.
This is java 1.8.0_311
We need DateTimeFormatter class to format date string properly. We also need to convert the string date to LocalDate object and back to string again to display. The DateTimeParseException class handles any undesired outcomes.
import java.time.LocalDate;
import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter;
import java.time.format.DateTimeParseException;
class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) {
try{
String date = "08-02-2022 Tuesday";
DateTimeFormatter pattern =
DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("dd-MM-yyyy eeee");
// parsing string date to LocalDate obj
// The part you were missing
LocalDate formattedDate = LocalDate.parse(date, pattern);
// Again converting to string
System.out.println(formattedDate.format(pattern));
}
// handling exception for unparseble dates
catch(DateTimeParseException x){
System.out.println("The given date cannot be parsed");
}
}
}
LocalDate contains of a day, month, and year (Variation between +999999999-12-31 and -999999999-12-31)
Things like time and other values are rejected by the parsing. If you would like the day of the week, you can use a function like:
// Parses the date
LocalDate dt = LocalDate.parse("2018-11-27");
// Prints the day
System.out.println(dt.getDayOfWeek());
This works for me:
String date = "08/02/2022 Tuesday";
DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("dd/MM/yyyy EEEE");
LocalDate time = LocalDate.parse(date, formatter);
System.out.println(time.format(formatter));
I've set an AlertDialog.builder in which there is an input, to obtain a date from the user. Currently, it's set like that:
input.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_DATETIME | InputType.TYPE_DATETIME_VARIATION_NORMAL);
What I would like, isn't simply an entire line on which the user has to write. I would like a thing like
Input: __/__/____
Where the user would have to complete with
Input: 18/04/2018
And then I would get the whole thing as a string: "18-04-2018"
What can I do?
You can parse the string to LocalDate then format to desired format, or you can just replace / with -:
String input = "18/04/2018";
String outPut;
// first approach
LocalDate localDate = LocalDate.parse(input, DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("dd/MM/yyyy"));
outPut = localDate.format(DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("dd-MM-yyyy"));
// second approach
outPut = input.replaceAll("/", "-");
You have to use SimpleDateFormat which will change the format of date. have look this
public static String changeDateToTimeStamp(String date){
DateFormat inputFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/mm/yyyy");
DateFormat outputFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-mm-yyyy");
Date date1 = null;
try {
date1 = inputFormat.parse(date);
} catch (ParseException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
return outputFormat.format(date1);
}
this method will return date like "18-04-2018". Hope it will help you!
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I am trying to parse string into a date using the following code:
public static Date dateFormatter(String s)
{
SimpleDateFormat ft = new SimpleDateFormat ("MMddYYYY");
Date excelDate=null;
try
{
excelDate = ft.parse(s);
Date formatString = ft.format(excelDate);
System.out.println("Date to be printed in Excel is :" +formatString);
return excelDate;
}
catch(Exception ae)
{
System.out.println("No date");
}
return excelDate;
}
I am passing in the argument "04202017".
This function is not working for me. I am not able to figure out what I am doing wrong. Can anybody please help me?
You have to use ft.parse(s); instead of format(excelDate). Format is the other way (Date -> String)
DateFormat.parse(String)
And you dont have to parse the Date back to a String.
Corrected code:
public static Date dateFormatter(String s) {
SimpleDateFormat ft = new SimpleDateFormat ("MMddYYYY");
Date excelDate = null;
try {
excelDate = ft.parse(s);
System.out.println("Date to be printed in Excel is :" +excelDate);
return excelDate;
} catch(Exception ae) {
System.out.println("No date");
}
return excelDate;
}
You already parsed String s to excelDate with date format that you want. So i think it's good and enough to print just excelDate.
System.out.println("Date to be printed in Excel is :" +excelDate);
Like that.
And also change MMddYYYY to MMddyyyy.
Try parse method instead of format
For String to Date, use:
SimpleDateFormat.parse(String);
For Date to String, use:
SimpleDateFormat.format(date);
However, in your code, you already parsed the String and assigned into excelDate on this line:
excelDate = ft.parse(s);
try this one:
String string = "march 9, 2017";
DateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("MMMM d, yyyy", Locale.ENGLISH);
Date date = format.parse(string);
System.out.println(date);
It would be nice to use Java 1.8's new time classes (which are in java.time.* package).
public static void main(String[] args)
{
LocalDateTime dateTime = LocalDateTime.now();
DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
// To String
String dateString = dateTime.format(formatter);
System.out.println(dateString);
// To LocalDateTime
LocalDateTime parsedLocalDateTime = LocalDateTime.parse(dateString, formatter);
}
I am using JAXB and joda time 2.2. to backup the data from Mysql to XML and restore it back. in my Table I have a Date attribute in format of "16-Mar-05". I successfully store this in XML. but when I want to read it from XML and put it back in Mysql table, I cant get the right format.
this is my XMLAdapter class, here in unmarshal method the input String is "16-Mar-05", but I cant get the localDate variable in the format of "16-Mar-05", although I am setting pattern to "dd-MMM-yy". I posted all the options I tried, how can I get my localDate in "dd-MMM-yy" like 16-Mar-05format?
Thanks!!
public class DateAdapter extends XmlAdapter<String, LocalDate> {
// the desired format
private String pattern = "dd-MMM-yy";
#Override
public String marshal(LocalDate date) throws Exception {
//return new SimpleDateFormat(pattern).format(date);
return date.toString("dd-MMM-yy");
}
#Override
public LocalDate unmarshal(String date) throws Exception {
if (date == null) {
return null;
} else {
//first way
final DateTimeFormatter dtf = DateTimeFormat.forPattern("dd-MMM-yy");
final LocalDate localDate2 = dtf.parseLocalDate(date);
//second way
LocalDate localDate3 = LocalDate.parse(date,DateTimeFormat.forPattern("dd-MMM-yy"));
//third way
DateTimeFormatter FORMATTER = DateTimeFormat.forPattern("dd-MMM-yy");
DateTime dateTime = FORMATTER.parseDateTime(date);
LocalDate localDate4 = dateTime.toLocalDate();
return localDate4;
}
}
So I took your code and ran it and it works fine for me...
The problem, I think, you're having is that you're expecting a LocalDate object to maintain the format that you original parsed the object with, this is not how LocalDate works.
LocalDate is a representation of date or period in time, it is not a format.
LocalDate has a toString method which can be used to dump the value of the object, it, this is a internal format used by the object to provide a human readable representation.
To format the date, you need to use some kind of formater, that will take the pattern you want and a date value and return a String
For example, the following code...
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(pattern);
String date = "16-Mar-05";
DateTimeFormatter dtf = DateTimeFormat.forPattern("dd-MMM-yy");
LocalDate localDate2 = dtf.parseLocalDate(date);
System.out.println(localDate2 + "/" + dtf.print(localDate2));
//second way
LocalDate localDate3 = LocalDate.parse(date, DateTimeFormat.forPattern("dd-MMM-yy"));
System.out.println(localDate3 + "/" + dtf.print(localDate3));
//third way
DateTimeFormatter FORMATTER = DateTimeFormat.forPattern("dd-MMM-yy");
DateTime dateTime = FORMATTER.parseDateTime(date);
LocalDate localDate4 = dateTime.toLocalDate();
System.out.println(localDate4 + "/" + FORMATTER.print(localDate4));
Produced...
2005-03-16/16-Mar-05
2005-03-16/16-Mar-05
2005-03-16/16-Mar-05
Before you get upset about this, this is how Java Date works as well.
In mysql, i have a field time_entered of type datetime (sample data: 2012-06-20 16:00:47). I also have a method, getTimeEntered(), that returns the value as String. I want to display the date in this format 2012-06-20 using DateTimeFormat from GWT.
here's my code:
String date = aprHeaderDW.getTimeEntered();
DateTimeFormat fmt = DateTimeFormat.getFormat("MM-dd-yyyy");
dateEntered.setText("" + fmt.format(date));
The problem is, the format method doesn't accept arguments as String. So if there's only a way I could convert the date from String to Date type, it could probably work. I tried typecasting but didn't work.
You should be able to just use DateTimeFormat.
Date date = DateTimeFormat.getFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss").parse("2012-06-20 16:00:47");
String dateString = DateTimeFormat.getFormat("yyyy-MM-dd").format(date);
Otherwise there is a light-weight version of SimpleDateFormat that supports this pattern.
Date date = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss").parse("2012-06-20 16:00:47");
Hi There are two options.
The first is as it is already a string you could use a regular expression to modify the format.
The second is using a SimpleDateFormater you can parse the string to a date then back again.
For example:
public class DateMerge {
public static void main(String arg[])
{
String out = dateConvert("2012-06-20 16:00:47");
System.out.println(out);
}
public static String dateConvert (String inDate)
{
try {
DateFormat formatter ;
Date date ;
formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
date = (Date)formatter.parse(inDate);
formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy");
String outDate = formatter.format(date);
return outDate;
} catch (ParseException e)
{System.out.println("Exception :"+e); }
return null;
}
}
You may use like this.
String date = "2012-06-20 16:00:47";
SimpleDateFormat sf=new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
String lDate=sf.format(new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss").parse(date));
System.out.println(lDate);
Output:
2012-06-20
After trying a lot of times I came up with a solution, based on #Keppil and adding my own code.
Here's Keppil's suggested solution for converting String datetime into Date type:
Date date = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss").parse("2012-06-20 16:00:47");
...but my second requirement is to display just the date like 2012-06-20. Even though I removed HH:mm:ss, it still displayed the time like this 2012-06-20 00:00:00.
Here's my final solution:
Date date = null;
String d = rs.getString(SQL_CREATION_TIME); // assigns datetime value from mysql
// parse String datetime to Date
try {
date = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd").parse(d);
System.out.println("time entered: "+ date);
} catch (ParseException e) { e.printStackTrace(); }
// format the Date object then assigns to String
Format formatter;
formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
String s = formatter.format(date);