Specify the date format in XMLGregorianCalendar

Question

I want to use a Date in XMLGregorianCalendar format for sending to a web service. The web service expects information in yyyy-dd-mm format. I use the below code to create an XMLGregorianCalendar and send it to web service.

Date dob = null; DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");  try {     XMLGregorianCalendar date2;     dob = df.parse("13/06/1983");      GregorianCalendar c = new GregorianCalendar();     c.setTimeInMillis(dob.getTime());     date2 = DatatypeFactory.newInstance().newXMLGregorianCalendar(c);     System.out.println(date2); } catch(DatatypeConfigurationException e) {     // TODO Auto-generated catch block     e.printStackTrace(); } catch(ParseException e) {     // TODO Auto-generated catch block     e.printStackTrace(); } 

Unfortunately I always get the date as 1983-06-13T00:00:00.000-04:00. Time is also getting included in the output. Is it possible to get only the date? Could you please help me?

Answer 1

you don't need to specify a "SimpleDateFormat", it's simple: You must do specify the constant "DatatypeConstants.FIELD_UNDEFINED" where you don't want to show

GregorianCalendar cal = new GregorianCalendar(); cal.setTime(new Date()); XMLGregorianCalendar xmlDate = DatatypeFactory.newInstance().newXMLGregorianCalendarDate(cal.get(Calendar.YEAR), cal.get(Calendar.MONTH)+1, cal.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH), DatatypeConstants.FIELD_UNDEFINED); 

Answer 2

Yeah Got it...

Date dob=null; DateFormat df=new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy"); dob=df.parse( "13/06/1983" ); GregorianCalendar cal = new GregorianCalendar(); cal.setTime(dob); XMLGregorianCalendar xmlDate = DatatypeFactory.newInstance().newXMLGregorianCalendarDate(cal.get(Calendar.YEAR), cal.get(Calendar.MONTH)+1, cal.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH), DatatypeConstants.FIELD_UNDEFINED); 

This will give it in correct format.