Date to XMLGregorianCalendar with specific format

Question

I am getting a Date object, which i need to convert to XMLGregorian Calendar specific format

I tried below ways

String formattedDate = sdf.format(categoryData.getBulkCollectionTime()); //yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss
XMLGregorianCalendar xmlCal = DatatypeFactory.newInstance().newXMLGregorianCalendar(formattedDate);
dataListType.setTimestamp(xmlCal);

I am getting an exception, for sure I am doing wrong here. But I want to format the Date object into specified format, which is done by sdf.format perfectly.

But how do I create the XMLGregorianCalendar object for the same (from formattedDate)?

Answer 1

You should fixed your date format:

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'");
sdf.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT"));
String date = sdf.format(new Date());
XMLGregorianCalendar xmlCal = DatatypeFactory.newInstance().newXMLGregorianCalendar(date);

Answer 2

You can do it by the date object itself:

String formattedDate = sdf.format(categoryData.getBulkCollectionTime()); //yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss
convertStringToXmlGregorian(formattedDate);


public XMLGregorianCalendar convertStringToXmlGregorian(String dateString)
{
      try {
            Date date = sdf.parse(dateString);
            GregorianCalendar gc = (GregorianCalendar) GregorianCalendar.getInstance();
            gc.setTime(date);
            return DatatypeFactory.newInstance().newXMLGregorianCalendar(gc);
        } catch (ParseException e) {
            // Optimize exception handling
            System.out.print(e.getMessage());
            return null;
        } 

}