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Builder that can holds date and time fields and related date and time objects.
Builder that can holds date and time fields and related date and time objects.
The builder is used to hold onto different elements of date and time. It is designed as two separate maps:
TemporalField to long value, where the value may be
outside the valid range for the fieldClass to TemporalAccessor, holding larger scale objects
like LocalDateTime.This class is mutable and not thread-safe. It should only be used from a single thread.
Creates an empty instance of the builder.
The Service Provider Interface (SPI) to be implemented by classes providing date-time formatting information.
The Service Provider Interface (SPI) to be implemented by classes providing date-time formatting information.
This interface is a service provider that can be called by multiple threads. Implementations must be thread-safe. Implementations should cache the returned formatters.
Formatter for printing and parsing date-time objects.
Formatter for printing and parsing date-time objects.
This class provides the main application entry point for printing and parsing.
Common instances of DateTimeFormatter are provided:
yyyy-MMM-ddlong or medium#ISO_LOCAL_DATEFor more complex formatters, a builder is provided.
In most cases, it is not necessary to use this class directly when formatting.
The main date-time classes provide two methods - one for formatting,
format(DateTimeFormatter formatter), and one for parsing,
For example:
String text = date.format(formatter); LocalDate date = LocalDate.parse(text, formatter);Some aspects of printing and parsing are dependent on the locale. The locale can be changed using the
#withLocale(Locale) method
which returns a new formatter in the requested locale.Some applications may need to use the older Format class for formatting.
The #toFormat() method returns an implementation of the old API.
This class is immutable and thread-safe.
Builder to create date-time formatters.
Builder to create date-time formatters.
This allows a DateTimeFormatter to be created.
All date-time formatters are created ultimately using this builder.
The basic elements of date-time can all be added:
In addition, any of the elements may be decorated by padding, either with spaces or any other character.
Finally, a shorthand pattern, mostly compatible with java.text.SimpleDateFormat SimpleDateFormat
can be used, see #appendPattern(String).
In practice, this simply parses the pattern and calls other methods on the builder.
This class is a mutable builder intended for use from a single thread.
An exception thrown when an error occurs during parsing.
An exception thrown when an error occurs during parsing.
This exception includes the text being parsed and the error index.
This class is intended for use in a single thread.
Constructs a new exception with the specified message and cause.
The Service Provider Implementation to obtain date-time formatters for a style.
The Service Provider Implementation to obtain date-time formatters for a style.
This implementation is based on extraction of data from a SimpleDateFormat.
This class is immutable and thread-safe.
Localized symbols used in date and time formatting.
Localized symbols used in date and time formatting.
A significant part of dealing with dates and times is the localization. This class acts as a central point for accessing the information.
This class is immutable and thread-safe.
Enumeration of the style of a localized date, time or date-time formatter.
Enumeration of the style of a localized date, time or date-time formatter.
These styles are used when obtaining a date-time style from configuration.
See DateTimeFormatter and DateTimeFormatterBuilder for usage.
This is an immutable and thread-safe enum.
Enumeration of different ways to resolve dates and times.
Enumeration of different ways to resolve dates and times.
Parsing a text string occurs in two phases. Phase 1 is a basic text parse according to the fields added to the builder. Phase 2 resolves the parsed field-value pairs into date and/or time objects. This style is used to control how phase 2, resolving, happens.
This is an immutable and thread-safe enum.
Enumeration of ways to handle the positive/negative sign.
Enumeration of ways to handle the positive/negative sign.
The formatting engine allows the positive and negative signs of numbers
to be controlled using this enum.
See DateTimeFormatterBuilder for usage.
This is an immutable and thread-safe enum.
Enumeration of the style of text formatting and parsing.
Enumeration of the style of text formatting and parsing.
Text styles define three sizes for the formatted text - 'full', 'short' and 'narrow'. Each of these three sizes is available in both 'standard' and 'stand-alone' variations.
The difference between the three sizes is obvious in most languages. For example, in English the 'full' month is 'January', the 'short' month is 'Jan' and the 'narrow' month is 'J'. Note that the narrow size is often not unique. For example, 'January', 'June' and 'July' all have the 'narrow' text 'J'.
The difference between the 'standard' and 'stand-alone' forms is trickier to describe as there is no difference in English. However, in other languages there is a difference in the word used when the text is used alone, as opposed to in a complete date. For example, the word used for a month when used alone in a date picker is different to the word used for month in association with a day and year in a date.
This is immutable and thread-safe enum.
Provides classes to print and parse dates and times.
Printing and parsing is based around the
DateTimeFormatterclass. That class contains common formatters and factory methods. TheDateTimeFormatterBuilderclass is available for advanced and complex use cases.Localization occurs by calling
withLocale(Locale)on the formatter. Further customization is possible usingDecimalStyle.