Parsing Joda-Time Partials

Question

I\'d like to produce Partials from Strings, but can\'t find anything in the API that supports that. Obviously, I can write my own parser outside of the Joda-Time framework

Answer 1

I've extended DateTimeParserBucket. My extended class intercepts calls to the saveField() methods, and stores the field type and value before delegating to super. I've also implemented a method that uses those stored field values to create a Partial.

I'm able to pass my bucket instance to DateTimeParser.parseInto(), and then ask it to create the Partial.

It works, but I can't say I'm impressed with Joda-Time - given that it doesn't support parsing Partials out of the box. The lack of DateTimeFormatter.parsePartial(String) is a glaring omission.