how to get a list of dates between two dates in java

Question

I want a list of dates between start date and end date.

The result should be a list of all dates including the start and end date.

Answer 1

One solution would be to create a Calendar instance, and start a cycle, increasing it's Calendar.DATE field until it reaches the desired date. Also, on each step you should create a Date instance (with corresponding parameters), and put it to your list.

Some dirty code:

    public List getDatesBetween(final Date date1, final Date date2) {
    List dates = new ArrayList();

    Calendar calendar = new GregorianCalendar() {{
        set(Calendar.YEAR, date1.getYear());
        set(Calendar.MONTH, date1.getMonth());
        set(Calendar.DATE, date1.getDate());
    }};

    while (calendar.get(Calendar.YEAR) != date2.getYear() && calendar.get(Calendar.MONTH) != date2.getMonth() && calendar.get(Calendar.DATE) != date2.getDate()) {
        calendar.add(Calendar.DATE, 1);
        dates.add(new Date(calendar.get(Calendar.YEAR), calendar.get(Calendar.MONTH), calendar.get(Calendar.DATE)));
    }

    return dates;
}