How to convert string HH:MM to Joda Duration?

Question

I have a field in a form to state the time duration of an event. Say, the event is to last 15 mins. So the field will have the following value: 00:15 If it is to last 1 hour

Answer 1

I think a better way would be to use PeriodFormatterBuilder like this:

 PeriodFormatter hoursMinutes= new PeriodFormatterBuilder()
     .appendHours()
     .appendSeparator(":")
     .appendMinutes()
     .toFormatter();

Then you can parse your strings into Period objects and call toStandardDuration() on those - or keep working with the Period, since that seems to match your use case better.