How to detect if a date is within this or next week in java?

Question

If I have a date of an event, such as 2011-01-03, how to detect if it is within this or next week in java ? Any sample code ?

Edit :

I thought it was a simple qu

Answer 1

It partly depends on what you mean by "this week" and "next week"... but with Joda Time it's certainly easy to find out whether it's in "today or the next 7 days" as it were:

LocalDate event = getDateFromSomewhere();
LocalDate today = new LocalDate();
LocalDate weekToday = today.plusWeeks(1);
LocalDate fortnightToday = weekToday.plusWeeks(1);

if (today.compareTo(event) <= 0 && event.compareTo(weekToday) < 0)
{
    // It's within the next 7 days
}
else if (weekToday.compareTo(event) <= 0 && event.compareTo(fornightToday) < 0)
{
    // It's next week
}

EDIT: To get the Sunday to Saturday week, you'd probably want:

LocalDate startOfWeek = new LocalDate().withDayOfWeek(DateTimeConstants.SUNDAY);

then do the same code as the above, but relative to startOfWeek.