Joda time - Parsing string throws java.lang.IllegalArgumentException
date-formatting, date-parsing, java, jodatime
Solution
Have a look at the JavaDoc:
Returns a basic formatter that combines a basic date and time without millis, separated by a 'T' (yyyyMMdd'T'HHmmssZ). The time zone offset is 'Z' for zero, and of the form '±HHmm' for non-zero. The parser is strict by default, thus time string 24:00 cannot be parsed.
The key here seems to be The time zone offset is 'Z' for zero, and of the form '±HHmm' for non-zero. Joda Time obviously expects time zone information for `parse()`.
I appended `"Z"` to your parsed date String and it works better:
DateTimeFormatter formatter = ISODateTimeFormat.dateTimeNoMillis();
LocalDateTime ldt = new LocalDateTime();
String val = ldt.toString(formatter);
System.out.println(val);
val += "Z";
LocalDateTime nldt = LocalDateTime.parse(val, formatter);
System.out.println(nldt.toString());
Output is:
2013-03-26T17:50:06
2013-03-26T17:50:06.000
Problem
Shouldn't a `String` formatted with a specific `DateTimeFormatter` be able to be parsed using `LocalDateTime.parse()`? Test ``` DateTimeFormatter formatter = ISODateTimeFormat.dateTimeNoMillis() LocalDateTime ldt = new LocalDateTime() String val = ldt.toString(formatter) System.out.println(val) //2013-03-26T13:10:46 // parse() throws java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Invalid format: "2013-03-26T13:10:46" is too short LocalDateTime nldt = LocalDateTime.parse(val, formatter) ```