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

Posted by MUZ140564 Kudakwashe Jena
MUZ140564 Kudakwashe Jena
4,895 Points

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

please help ams stuck.

Movie.java 
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() {
    SimpleDateFormat simpleDate = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
    simpleDate.format(mReleaseDate);
    return simpleDate; 
  } 
}
MUZ140564 Kudakwashe Jena
MUZ140564 Kudakwashe Jena
4,895 Points

Never mind.finally got it.

6 Answers

Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
57,712 Points

You got it ... awesome! My code looked like:

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

I'll mark the post as solved.

Steve.

MUZ140564 Kudakwashe Jena
MUZ140564 Kudakwashe Jena
4,895 Points

lol cool thanks.I marked yours as best answer its the same as what i eventually did on mine.

Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
57,712 Points

:-) :-)

channonhall
channonhall
12,247 Points

Hey steve ,Still not working Can you help? Or just paste the code here

Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
57,712 Points

Hi Channon,

What's not working? Can you paste your code here as the answer is already shown above.

Steve.

channonhall
channonhall
12,247 Points

I posted it steve If you didn't know

MUZ140567 Merceline Nhamo
MUZ140567 Merceline Nhamo
4,739 Points
MUZ140567 Merceline Nhamo
MUZ140567 Merceline Nhamo
4,739 Points

thanks Steve your answer helped me a lot.

channonhall
channonhall
12,247 Points
channonhall
channonhall
12,247 Points

Here's my code :

mport 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() {
    SimpleDateFormat dateFormatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
    return dateFormatter.format(mReleaseDate);
  }
      }
channonhall
channonhall
12,247 Points
channonhall
channonhall
12,247 Points

Boom! - Thanks steve IT WORKED!!! Yeah!!

Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
57,712 Points

No problem! :+1: :wink:

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

OK - the new method needs to be called getFormattedReleaseDate(), it returns a string and takes no parameters. The first task wants the method to return an empty string. That would look like:

public String getFormattedReleaseDate(){
  return "";
}

Next, you want to add a date formatter with the given format. That line is:

SimpleDateFormat dateFormatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");

You then pass the member variable mReleaseDate into the formatter using the format method and return the result of that, replacing your existing return line. That line looks like:

return dateFormatter.format(mReleaseDate);

Put that all together and you end up with the method marked as Best Answer in here.

Steve.

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

All you did wrong was putting the new method inside the setReleaseDate method. If you move the curly braces around so that your new method is outside that, it would work. 

public void setReleaseDate(Date date) {
  mReleaseDate = date;
// move out of here
}  // <-- to after this brace

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