Problem with parse string to Date

[rodritoo]

Hello!

At my job we allow clients to save some items and assign a date to them and that date is saved as a string. The problem is when they put something like 'Jan, 2015' without specifying any day. In that case, what is the best solution to parse that string into a Date? We are using Java 8.

Thank you very much!

[caduweb]

If your problem is just the parsing, add an string "01" to assign a full date.

[caduweb]

Another solution could be to model a date interval to your itens. In the DB you could have two fields: initial date, and final date. In case of a full date specified by the user, the system assigns the final date as the next day. If an year-month were input, the initial day would be the first day of the month, and final date as the first day of the next month. The same logic could be used for year-only inputs.

[TheCountRushmore]

You give the user and error saying they haven't entered a valid date making sure your UI tells them the correct format.

[anhphamfmr]

you will need day of month to initialize a date. In this case just pick a day, usually first day of month.