Java8 LocalDate parse Exception

Question

I'm doing a simple parse of a string in LocalDate: ``` log.debug("----->" + DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("EEE").format(LocalDateTime.now())); log.debug("--->" + LocalDate.parse("lun",DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("EEE",Locale.ITALY))); ``` Unfortunally, this code give this exception: ``` java.time.format.DateTimeParseException: Text 'lun' could not be parsed: Unable to obtain LocalDate from TemporalAccessor: {DayOfWeek=1},ISO of type java.time.format.Parsed at java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter.createError(DateTimeFormatter.java:1919) at java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter.parse(DateTimeFormatter.java:1854) at java.time.LocalDate.parse(LocalDate.java:400) at it.Main.main(Main.java:60) ... 11 more Caused by: java.time.DateTimeException: Unable to obtain LocalDate from TemporalAccessor: {DayOfWeek=1},ISO of type java.time.format.Parsed at java.time.LocalDate.from(LocalDate.java:368) at java.time.LocalDate$$Lambda$15/42768293.queryFrom(Unknown Source) at java.time.format.Parsed.query(Parsed.…

Accepted Answer

LocalDate is supposed to represent an actual date - you only pass a day name (Monday) which can't be translated into a proper 26-May-2014, for example.

If all you want is to parse the day of week, you can use:

```
DateTimeFormatter fmt = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("EEE", Locale.ITALY);
DayOfWeek day = DayOfWeek.from(fmt.parse("lun"));
```

Java8 LocalDate parse Exception

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