Java 8 optional time part not working

Question

I am trying to create date time format for optional time part currently I implemented this

import java.time.*;
import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter;
import j         


        

Answer 1

This seems like a bug. The millisecond part of datetime parsing seems to be in general buggy in Java 8, see this issue and its duplicates.

Relevant quote:

Worse however is that the SSS pattern has therefore ended up using strict mode when lenient mode would be appropriate. As it currently stands, DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("hhmmss.SSS") requires three digits for milliseconds, when it was originally intended to require 0 to 9 (the lenient behaviour).

Given that the current implementation requires three digits for SSS, it is thus very surprising that adjacent value parsing does not apply.

But you seem to have found a case where requirement mentioned above does not apply either. In addition, even though the issue above is in state "fixed", your example seems to have issues in both java 8 and java 9:

>java -version
java version "9"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 9+181)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 9+181, mixed mode)

>javac Ideone.java

>java Ideone
null
2017-07-01T00:00
2017-07-01T00:00

>"c:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0\bin"\javac Ideone.java

>"c:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0\bin"\java Ideone
null
2017-07-01T00:00
2017-07-01T00:00

should it entertain 1,2 and 3 fractions? or only 3 fractions?

Based on the quote, it should be only 3, though originally intended to be 0-9.

Answer 2

Reason why you are getting null when you pass this is

"2017-07-01T00:00:00.0Z"

you have told the parser to expect 3 char format (see below .SSS)

DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss[.SSS]'Z'");

If you change it to .SS, it should work, however your last input i.e. 2017-07-01T00:00:00.000Z will break. You may want to include some logic to handle different formats

Answer 3

I think what you want is DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss[.SSS][.S]'Z'")

Basically it's saying to first check for the long-form of 2+ fraction-of-second digits, otherwise if that optional field is not present, check for the optional field of a single fraction-of-second digit specified by [.S]