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Android Build a Weather App (2015) Working with JSON Formatting a Date

Posted by Malcolm Mutambanengwe
Malcolm Mutambanengwe
4,205 Points

setting date and time

What am I doing wrong?

Movie.java 
import java.util.Date;

public class Movie {

    private String mTitle;
    private Date mReleaseDate;
    private String mFormattedReleaseDate;

    public String getTitle() {
        return mTitle;
    }

    public void setTitle(String title) {
        mTitle = title;
    }

    public Date getReleaseDate() {
        return mReleaseDate;
    }

    public void setReleaseDate(Date date) {
        mReleaseDate = date;
    }

    public void getFormattedReleaseDate() {
      return mFormattedReleaseDate;
    }

    public void setFormattedReleaseDate(String FormattedReleaseDate) {
        mFormattedReleaseDate = formattedReleaseDate;
    }

}

2 Answers

Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
57,712 Points

Hi,

You want to call the format method on the new formatter instance and pass in mReleaseDate as the parameter. Use dot notation for the method call; formatter.format(); and put the date that is already declared in the brackets. That will return a formatted string to the call; return that straight out of your method:

     public String getFormattedReleaseDate(){
      SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
      return formatter.format(mReleaseDate);
    }

Make sense?

Steve.

Malcolm Mutambanengwe
Malcolm Mutambanengwe
4,205 Points

Oh okay, I get it. Slowly I'm getting there.

Thanks Steve.

Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
57,712 Points

:+1:

Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
57,712 Points
Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
57,712 Points

Hi Mal,

For the first part of this just return an empty string from your new method:

  public String getFormattedReleaseDate(){
    return "";
  }

Is that where you're at?

Steve.

Malcolm Mutambanengwe
Malcolm Mutambanengwe
4,205 Points

Hi Steve

Yep, this is where I am. Thanks for the speedy reply.

Malcolm Mutambanengwe
Malcolm Mutambanengwe
4,205 Points

The mReleaseDate member variable is already stored as a Date object. Convert it and return it using the SimpleDateFormat variable.

import java.util.Date;

public class Movie {

    private String mTitle;
    private Date mReleaseDate;

    public String getTitle() {
        return mTitle;
    }

    public void setTitle(String title) {
        mTitle = title;
    }

    public Date getReleaseDate() {
        return mReleaseDate;
    }

    public void setReleaseDate(Date date) {
        mReleaseDate = date;
    }

    public String getFormattedReleaseDate(ReleaseDate) {
    SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");

      return formatter;
    }  
}

I was thinking that I would take the output from ReleaseDate and use it as input to FormattedReleaseDate and then the output returned.

[MOD: edited code block - srh]