Date conversion
date, scala
Solution
I see a couple of problems in your code, but this works fine:
scala> val format = new java.text.SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy")
format: java.text.SimpleDateFormat = java.text.SimpleDateFormat@9586200
scala> format.format(new java.util.Date())
res4: java.lang.String = 21-03-2011
scala> format.parse("21-03-2011")
res5: java.util.Date = Mon Mar 21 00:00:00 CET 2011
Problem
I have a date variable ``` var date: Date = new Date() ``` then I have converted this date to String: ``` var dateStr = date.toString() ``` now I need to convert back this String to date. I have tried both: 1: ``` var stringToDate: Date = date2Str.asInstanceOf[Date] ``` and 2: ``` stringToDate: Date = new SimpleDateFormat("dd.MM.yyyy").parse(dateStr); ``` But in both case I got the error: ``` java.lang.ClassCastException: java.lang.String cannot be cast to java.util.Date ```