Formatted string from JodaTime duration

Question

I am trying to get formatted string from JodaTime's duration class.

Duration duration = new Duration(durationInSecond * 1000);
PeriodFormatter formatter = new PeriodFormatterBuilder()
                .appendDays()
                .appendSuffix(" days, ")
                .appendHours()
                .appendSuffix(" hours, ")
                .appendMinutes()
                .appendSuffix(" minutes and ")
                .appendSeconds()
                .appendSuffix(" seconds")
                .toFormatter();
String formattedString = formatter.print(duration.toPeriod());

Value of formattedString should be

65 days, 3 hours, 5 minutes and 20 seconds

But It is

1563 hours, 5 minutes, 20 seconds

1563 hours are 65 days and 3 hours but formatter is not printing in that manner.

What I'm missing here?

Answer 1

You may use a PeriodType along with Period.normalizedStandard(org.joda.time.PeriodType) to specify which fields you are interested in.

In your case PeriodType.dayTime()seems appropriate .

Duration duration = new Duration(durationInSecond * 1000);
PeriodFormatter formatter = new PeriodFormatterBuilder()
        .appendDays()
        .appendSuffix(" days, ")
        .appendHours()
        .appendSuffix(" hours, ")
        .appendMinutes()
        .appendSuffix(" minutes, ")
        .appendSeconds()
        .appendSuffix(" seconds")
        .toFormatter();

Period period = duration.toPeriod();
Period dayTimePeriod = period.normalizedStandard(PeriodType.dayTime());
String formattedString = formatter.print(dayTimePeriod);

System.out.println(formattedString);

Answer 2

I found using PeriodFormat.getDefault() helpful for creating the PeriodFormatter, without having to do all the extra work using the PeriodFormatterBuilder and creating your own. It gives the same result.