Joda time : How to convert String to LocalDate?

Question

How to specify the format string to convert the date alone from string. In my case, only the date part is relevant

Constructing it as DateTime fails:

Answer 1

In my case, incoming string may be in one of two formats. So I first try to parse string with more specific format:

String s = "2016-02-12";
LocalDateTime ldt;
try {
    ldt = LocalDateTime.parse(s, DateTimeFormat.forPattern("YYYY-MM-dd HH:mm"));
}
catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
    ldt = LocalDateTime.parse(s, DateTimeFormat.forPattern("YYYY-MM-dd"));
}