How to unify date format using DateTimeFormatter

Question

I need to parse different time format into BASIC_ISO_DATE. Right now, there are 4 types of date format:

• 2016-10-01 (ISO_LOCAL_DATE)<

Answer 1

You could build your own DateTimeFormatter.

DateTimeFormatter dateTimeFormatter = new DateTimeFormatterBuilder()
  .appendOptional(DateTimeFormatter.ISO_ZONED_DATE_TIME)
  .appendOptional(DateTimeFormatter.ISO_LOCAL_DATE)
  .appendOptional(new DateTimeFormatterBuilder()
    .appendValue(ChronoField.YEAR, 4)
    .optionalStart()
      .appendValue(ChronoField.MONTH_OF_YEAR)
    .optionalEnd()
    .appendLiteral('T')
    .parseDefaulting(ChronoField.MONTH_OF_YEAR, 1L)
    .parseDefaulting(ChronoField.DAY_OF_MONTH, 1L)
    .toFormatter())
  .toFormatter();
String[] strings = {"2016-10-01", "2016T", "201610T", "2016-02-07T22:03:39.937Z"};
for (String s : strings) {
  System.out.println(LocalDate.parse(s, dateTimeFormatter)
        .format(DateTimeFormatter.BASIC_ISO_DATE));
}