I need to parse a field which is sometimes given as a date and sometimes as a date/time. Is it possible to use single datatype for this using Java 8 time API?
Currently, I attempted to use a LocalDateTime for it, but for following invocation LocalDateTime.parse("1986-04-08", DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyy-MM-dd"))
I get a
java.time.DateTimeException: Unable to obtain LocalDateTime from TemporalAccessor: {},ISO resolved to 1986-04-08 of type java.time.format.Parsed
This is part of some generic parser accepting a date/datetime parse pattern as configuration option. So e.g. following solution with hardcoded parsing pattern
if ("yyyy-MM-dd".equals(pattern)) {
LocalDate.parse(value, DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyy-MM-dd"))).atStartOfDay()
}
is not an option for me.
Any other suggestions how to code it in a clean way are welcome.
解决方案
Just create custom formatter with the builder DateTimeFormatterBuilder
DateTimeFormatter formatter = new DateTimeFormatterBuilder()
.appendPattern("yyyy-MM-dd[ HH:mm:ss]")
.parseDefaulting(ChronoField.HOUR_OF_DAY, 0)
.parseDefaulting(ChronoField.MINUTE_OF_HOUR, 0)
.parseDefaulting(ChronoField.SECOND_OF_MINUTE, 0)
.toFormatter();
This formatter uses the [] brackets to allow optional parts in the format, and adds the default values for hour HOUR_OF_DAY, minute MINUTE_OF_HOUR and second SECOND_OF_MINUTE.
note: you can ommit, minutes and seconds, just providing the hour is enough.
And use it as usual.
LocalDateTime localDateTime1 = LocalDateTime.parse("1994-05-13", formatter);
LocalDateTime localDateTime2 = LocalDateTime.parse("1994-05-13 23:00:00", formatter);
This outputs the correct date time with default hours of 0 (starting of the day).
System.out.println(localDateTime1); // 1994-05-13T00:00
System.out.println(localDateTime2); // 1994-05-13T23:00