Java 8 Date equivalent to Joda's DateTimeFormatterBuilder with multiple parser formats?

Question

I currently have a Joda date parser that uses the DateTimeFormatterBuilder with half a dozen different date formats that I may receive.

I\'m migrating to Java 8\'s D

Answer 1

As an alternative answer to Tunaki, you can also use DateTimeFormatterBuilder:

DateTimeFormatter dateFormatter = new DateTimeFormatterBuilder()
  .appendPattern("[yyyy]")
  .appendPattern("[M/d/yyyy]")
  .parseDefaulting(ChronoField.MONTH_OF_YEAR, 1)
  .parseDefaulting(ChronoField.DAY_OF_MONTH, 1)
  .toFormatter()