Parse date-only as LocalDateTime in Java 8

Question

I need to parse a field which is sometimes given as a date and sometimes as a date/time. Is it possible to use single datatype for this using Java 8 time API? Currently, I a

Answer 1

I know its late for the answer, but it can help others...

Since the LocalDateTime you need to set a time, otherwise you can use just the LocalDate, I searched for LocalDateTime built-in solution to handle this. I didn't found, however I used this following approach:

// For specific date (the same as the question)
LocalDateTime specificDate LocalDateTime.of(LocalDate.of(1986, 4, 8), LocalTime.MIN);

Other examples:

// For the start of day
LocalDateTime startToday = LocalDateTime.of(LocalDate.now(), LocalTime.MIN));

// For the end of day
LocalDateTime endOfToday = LocalDateTime.of(LocalDate.now(), LocalTime.MAX));

This way you don't need to use a formatter. :)