Package org.apache.groovy.dateutil.extensions

Class DateUtilExtensions

java.lang.Object

org.apache.groovy.dateutil.extensions.DateUtilExtensions

public class DateUtilExtensions
extends Object

This class defines new groovy methods which appear on normal JDK Date and Calendar classes inside the Groovy environment.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
static Date	clearTime(Date self)	Clears the time portion of this java.sql.Date instance; useful utility where it makes sense to compare month/day/year only portions of a Date.
static Calendar	clearTime(Calendar self)	Clears the time portion of this Calendar instance; useful utility where it makes sense to compare month/day/year only portions of a Calendar.
static Date	clearTime(Date self)	Clears the time portion of this Date instance; useful utility where it makes sense to compare month/day/year only portions of a Date.
static Calendar	copyWith(Calendar self, Map<Object,Integer> updates)	Support creating a new Date having similar properties to an existing Date (which remains unaltered) but with some fields updated according to a Map of changes.
static Date	copyWith(Date self, Map<Object,Integer> updates)	Support creating a new Date having similar properties to an existing Date (which remains unaltered) but with some fields updated according to a Map of changes.
static void	downto(Calendar self, Calendar to, Closure closure)	Iterates from the date represented by this calendar up to the date represented by the given calendar, inclusive, incrementing by one day each time.
static void	downto(Date self, Date to, Closure closure)	Iterates from this date down to the given date, inclusive, decrementing by one day each time.
static String	format(Calendar self, String pattern)	Shortcut for SimpleDateFormat to output a String representation of this calendar instance.
static String	format(Date self, String format)	Create a String representation of this date according to the given format pattern.
static String	format(Date self, String format, TimeZone tz)	Create a String representation of this date according to the given format pattern and timezone.
static int	getAt(Calendar self, int field)	Support the subscript operator for a Calendar.
static List<Integer>	getAt(Calendar self, Collection fields)	Support the subscript operator for a Calendar with a collection of indices.
static int	getAt(Date self, int field)	Support the subscript operator for a Date.
static List<Integer>	getAt(Date self, Collection fields)	Support the subscript operator for a Date with a collection of indices.
static String	getDateString(Date self)	Return a string representation of the 'day' portion of this date according to the locale-specific DateFormat.SHORT default format.
static String	getDateTimeString(Date self)	Return a string representation of the date and time time portion of this Date instance, according to the locale-specific format used by DateFormat.
static String	getTimeString(Date self)	Return a string representation of the time portion of this date according to the locale-specific DateFormat.MEDIUM default format.
static Date	minus(Date self, int days)	Subtract a number of days from this date and returns the new date.
static Timestamp	minus(Timestamp self, int days)	Subtract a number of days from this Timestamp and returns the new Timestamp object.
static int	minus(Calendar self, Calendar then)	Subtract another date from this one and return the number of days of the difference.
static Date	minus(Date self, int days)	Subtract a number of days from this date and returns the new date.
static int	minus(Date self, Date then)	Subtract another Date from this one and return the number of days of the difference.
static Date	next(Date self)	Increment a java.sql.Date by one day.
static Calendar	next(Calendar self)	Increment a Calendar by one day.
static Date	next(Date self)	Increment a Date by one day.
static Date	plus(Date self, int days)	Add a number of days to this date and returns the new date.
static Timestamp	plus(Timestamp self, int days)	Add number of days to this Timestamp and returns the new Timestamp object.
static Date	plus(Date self, int days)	Add a number of days to this date and returns the new date.
static Date	previous(Date self)	Decrement a java.sql.Date by one day.
static Calendar	previous(Calendar self)	Decrement a Calendar by one day.
static Date	previous(Date self)	Decrement a Date by one day.
static void	putAt(Calendar self, int field, int value)	Support the subscript operator for mutating a Calendar.
static void	putAt(Date self, int field, int value)	Support the subscript operator for mutating a Date.
static void	set(Calendar self, Map<Object,Integer> updates)	Support mutating a Calendar with a Map.
static void	set(Date self, Map<Object,Integer> updates)	Support mutating a Date with a Map.
static Calendar	toCalendar(Date self)	Convert a Date to a Calendar.
static Calendar	updated(Calendar self, Map<Object,Integer> updates)	Legacy alias for copyWith.
static Date	updated(Date self, Map<Object,Integer> updates)	Legacy alias for copyWith.
static void	upto(Calendar self, Calendar to, Closure closure)	Iterates from the date represented by this calendar up to the date represented by the given calendar, inclusive, incrementing by one day each time.
static void	upto(Date self, Date to, Closure closure)	Iterates from this date up to the given date, inclusive, incrementing by one day each time.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Method Details

getAt

public static int getAt(Date self,
 int field)

Support the subscript operator for a Date.

Parameters:

self - a Date

field - a Calendar field, e.g. MONTH

Returns:

the value for the given field, e.g. FEBRUARY

Since:

1.5.5

See Also:

• Calendar

getAt

public static List<Integer> getAt(Date self,
 Collection fields)

Support the subscript operator for a Date with a collection of indices.

Parameters:

self - a Date

fields - a collection of Calendar fields, e.g. [YEAR, MONTH]

Returns:

the value for the given field, e.g. [2022, FEBRUARY]

Since:

4.0.5

See Also:

• Calendar

toCalendar

public static Calendar toCalendar(Date self)

Convert a Date to a Calendar.

Parameters:

self - a Date

Returns:

a Calendar corresponding to the given Date

Since:

1.7.6

getAt

public static int getAt(Calendar self,
 int field)

Support the subscript operator for a Calendar.

Parameters:

self - a Calendar

field - a Calendar field, e.g. MONTH

Returns:

the value for the given field, e.g. FEBRUARY

Since:

1.7.3

See Also:

• Calendar

getAt

public static List<Integer> getAt(Calendar self,
 Collection fields)

Support the subscript operator for a Calendar with a collection of indices.

Parameters:

self - a Calendar

fields - a collection of Calendar fields, e.g. [YEAR, MONTH]

Returns:

the value for the given field, e.g. [2022, FEBRUARY]

Since:

4.0.5

See Also:

• Calendar

putAt

public static void putAt(Calendar self,
 int field,
 int value)

Support the subscript operator for mutating a Calendar. Example usage:

 import static java.util.Calendar.*
 def cal = Calendar.instance
 cal[DAY_OF_WEEK] = MONDAY
 cal[MONTH] = MARCH
 println cal.time // A Monday in March
 

Parameters:

self - A Calendar

field - A Calendar field, e.g. MONTH

value - The value for the given field, e.g. FEBRUARY

Since:

1.7.3

See Also:

• Calendar.set(int, int)

putAt

public static void putAt(Date self,
 int field,
 int value)

Support the subscript operator for mutating a Date.

Parameters:

self - A Date

field - A Calendar field, e.g. MONTH

value - The value for the given field, e.g. FEBRUARY

Since:

1.7.3

See Also:

• putAt(java.util.Calendar, int, int)
• Calendar.set(int, int)

set

public static void set(Calendar self,
 Map<Object,Integer> updates)

Support mutating a Calendar with a Map.

The map values are the normal values provided as the second parameter to java.util.Calendar#set(int, int). The keys can either be the normal fields values provided as the first parameter to that method or one of the following Strings:

Calendar index values

year	Calendar.YEAR
month	Calendar.MONTH
date	Calendar.DATE
dayOfMonth	Calendar.DATE
hourOfDay	Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY
minute	Calendar.MINUTE
second	Calendar.SECOND

Example usage:

 import static java.util.Calendar.*
 def cal = Calendar.instance
 def m = [:]
 m[YEAR] = 2010
 m[MONTH] = DECEMBER
 m[DATE] = 25
 cal.set(m)
 println cal.time // Christmas 2010

 cal.set(year:2011, month:DECEMBER, date:25)
 println cal.time // Christmas 2010
 

Parameters:

self - A Calendar

updates - A Map of Calendar keys and values

Since:

1.7.3

See Also:

• Calendar.set(int, int)
• Calendar.set(int, int, int, int, int, int)

updated

public static Calendar updated(Calendar self,
 Map<Object,Integer> updates)

Legacy alias for copyWith. Will be deprecated and removed in future versions of Groovy.

Since:

1.7.3

See Also:

• copyWith(java.util.Calendar, java.util.Map)

copyWith

public static Calendar copyWith(Calendar self,
 Map<Object,Integer> updates)

Support creating a new Date having similar properties to an existing Date (which remains unaltered) but with some fields updated according to a Map of changes.

Example usage:

 import static java.util.Calendar.YEAR
 def now = Calendar.instance
 def nextYear = now[YEAR] + 1
 def oneYearFromNow = now.copyWith(year: nextYear)
 println now.time
 println oneYearFromNow.time
 

Parameters:

self - A Calendar

updates - A Map of Calendar keys and values

Returns:

The newly created Calendar

Since:

2.2.0

See Also:

• Calendar.set(int, int)
• Calendar.set(int, int, int, int, int, int)
• set(java.util.Calendar, java.util.Map)

set

public static void set(Date self,
 Map<Object,Integer> updates)

Support mutating a Date with a Map.

The map values are the normal values provided as the second parameter to java.util.Calendar#set(int, int). The keys can either be the normal fields values provided as the first parameter to that method or one of the following Strings:

Calendar index values

year	Calendar.YEAR
month	Calendar.MONTH
date	Calendar.DATE
dayOfMonth	Calendar.DATE
hourOfDay	Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY
minute	Calendar.MINUTE
second	Calendar.SECOND

Example usage:

 import static java.util.Calendar.YEAR
 def date = new Date()
 def nextYear = date[YEAR] + 1
 date.set(year: nextYear)
 println date
 

Parameters:

self - A Date

updates - A Map of Calendar keys and values

Since:

1.7.3

See Also:

• Calendar.set(int, int)
• set(java.util.Calendar, java.util.Map)

updated

public static Date updated(Date self,
 Map<Object,Integer> updates)

Legacy alias for copyWith. Will be deprecated and removed in future versions of Groovy.

Since:

1.7.3

See Also:

• copyWith(java.util.Date, java.util.Map)

copyWith

public static Date copyWith(Date self,
 Map<Object,Integer> updates)

Support creating a new Date having similar properties to an existing Date (which remains unaltered) but with some fields updated according to a Map of changes.

Example usage:

 import static java.util.Calendar.YEAR
 def today = new Date()
 def nextYear = today[YEAR] + 1
 def oneYearFromNow = today.copyWith(year: nextYear)
 println today
 println oneYearFromNow
 

Parameters:

self - A Date

updates - A Map of Calendar keys and values

Returns:

The newly created Date

Since:

2.2.0

See Also:

• Calendar.set(int, int)
• set(java.util.Date, java.util.Map)
• copyWith(java.util.Calendar, java.util.Map)

next

public static Date next(Date self)

Increment a Date by one day.

Parameters:

self - a Date

Returns:

the next days date

Since:

1.0

next

public static Calendar next(Calendar self)

Increment a Calendar by one day.

Parameters:

self - a Calendar

Returns:

a new Calendar set to the next day

Since:

1.8.7

previous

public static Calendar previous(Calendar self)

Decrement a Calendar by one day.

Parameters:

self - a Calendar

Returns:

a new Calendar set to the previous day

Since:

1.8.7

next

public static Date next(Date self)

Increment a java.sql.Date by one day.

Parameters:

self - a java.sql.Date

Returns:

the next days date

Since:

1.0

previous

public static Date previous(Date self)

Decrement a Date by one day.

Parameters:

self - a Date

Returns:

the previous days date

Since:

1.0

previous

public static Date previous(Date self)

Decrement a java.sql.Date by one day.

Parameters:

self - a java.sql.Date

Returns:

the previous days date

Since:

1.0

plus

public static Date plus(Date self,
 int days)

Add a number of days to this date and returns the new date.

Parameters:

self - a Date

days - the number of days to increase

Returns:

the new date

Since:

1.0

plus

public static Date plus(Date self,
 int days)

Add a number of days to this date and returns the new date.

Parameters:

self - a java.sql.Date

days - the number of days to increase

Returns:

the new date

Since:

1.0

plus

public static Timestamp plus(Timestamp self,
 int days)

Add number of days to this Timestamp and returns the new Timestamp object.

Parameters:

self - a Timestamp

days - the number of days to increase

Returns:

the new Timestamp

minus

public static Date minus(Date self,
 int days)

Subtract a number of days from this date and returns the new date.

Parameters:

self - a Date

days - the number of days to subtract

Returns:

the new date

Since:

1.0

minus

public static Date minus(Date self,
 int days)

Subtract a number of days from this date and returns the new date.

Parameters:

self - a java.sql.Date

days - the number of days to subtract

Returns:

the new date

Since:

1.0

minus

public static Timestamp minus(Timestamp self,
 int days)

Subtract a number of days from this Timestamp and returns the new Timestamp object.

Parameters:

self - a Timestamp

days - the number of days to subtract

Returns:

the new Timestamp

minus

public static int minus(Calendar self,
 Calendar then)

Subtract another date from this one and return the number of days of the difference.

Date self = Date then + (Date self - Date then)

IOW, if self is before then the result is a negative value.

Parameters:

self - a Calendar

then - another Calendar

Returns:

number of days

Since:

1.6.0

minus

public static int minus(Date self,
 Date then)

Subtract another Date from this one and return the number of days of the difference.

Date self = Date then + (Date self - Date then)

IOW, if self is before then the result is a negative value.

Parameters:

self - a Date

then - another Date

Returns:

number of days

Since:

1.6.0

format

public static String format(Date self,
 String format)

Create a String representation of this date according to the given format pattern.

For example, if the system timezone is GMT, new Date(0).format('MM/dd/yy') would return the string "01/01/70". See documentation for SimpleDateFormat for format pattern use.

Note that a new DateFormat instance is created for every invocation of this method (for thread safety).

Parameters:

self - a Date

format - the format pattern to use according to SimpleDateFormat

Returns:

a string representation of this date.

Since:

1.5.7

See Also:

• SimpleDateFormat

format

public static String format(Date self,
 String format,
 TimeZone tz)

Create a String representation of this date according to the given format pattern and timezone.

For example: def d = new Date(0) def tz = TimeZone.getTimeZone('GMT') println d.format('dd/MMM/yyyy', tz) would return the string "01/Jan/1970". See documentation for SimpleDateFormat for format pattern use.

Note that a new DateFormat instance is created for every invocation of this method (for thread safety).

Parameters:

self - a Date

format - the format pattern to use according to SimpleDateFormat

tz - the TimeZone to use

Returns:

a string representation of this date.

Since:

1.8.3

See Also:

• SimpleDateFormat

getDateString

public static String getDateString(Date self)

Return a string representation of the 'day' portion of this date according to the locale-specific DateFormat.SHORT default format. For an "en_UK" system locale, this would be dd/MM/yy.

Note that a new DateFormat instance is created for every invocation of this method (for thread safety).

Parameters:

self - a Date

Returns:

a string representation of this date

Since:

1.5.7

See Also:

• DateFormat.getDateInstance(int)
• DateFormat.SHORT

getTimeString

public static String getTimeString(Date self)

Return a string representation of the time portion of this date according to the locale-specific DateFormat.MEDIUM default format. For an "en_UK" system locale, this would be HH:MM:ss.

Note that a new DateFormat instance is created for every invocation of this method (for thread safety).

Parameters:

self - a Date

Returns:

a string representing the time portion of this date

Since:

1.5.7

See Also:

• DateFormat.getTimeInstance(int)
• DateFormat.MEDIUM

getDateTimeString

public static String getDateTimeString(Date self)

Return a string representation of the date and time time portion of this Date instance, according to the locale-specific format used by DateFormat. This method uses the DateFormat.SHORT preset for the day portion and DateFormat.MEDIUM for the time portion of the output string.

Note that a new DateFormat instance is created for every invocation of this method (for thread safety).

Parameters:

self - a Date

Returns:

a string representation of this date and time

Since:

1.5.7

See Also:

• DateFormat.getDateTimeInstance(int, int)

clearTime

public static Date clearTime(Date self)

Clears the time portion of this Date instance; useful utility where it makes sense to compare month/day/year only portions of a Date.

Parameters:

self - a Date

Returns:

the Date but with the time portion cleared

Since:

1.6.7

clearTime

public static Date clearTime(Date self)

Clears the time portion of this java.sql.Date instance; useful utility where it makes sense to compare month/day/year only portions of a Date.

Parameters:

self - a java.sql.Date

Returns:

the java.sql.Date but with the time portion cleared

Since:

1.6.7

clearTime

public static Calendar clearTime(Calendar self)

Clears the time portion of this Calendar instance; useful utility where it makes sense to compare month/day/year only portions of a Calendar.

Parameters:

self - a Calendar

Returns:

the Calendar but with the time portion cleared

Since:

1.6.7

format

public static String format(Calendar self,
 String pattern)

Shortcut for SimpleDateFormat to output a String representation of this calendar instance. This method respects the Calendar's assigned TimeZone, whereas calling cal.time.format('HH:mm:ss') would use the system timezone.

Note that Calendar equivalents of date.getDateString() and variants do not exist because those methods are Locale-dependent. Although a Calendar may be assigned a Locale, that information is lost and therefore cannot be used to control the default date/time formats provided by these methods. Instead, the system Locale would always be used. The alternative is to simply call DateFormat.getDateInstance(int, java.util.Locale) and pass the same Locale that was used for the Calendar.

Parameters:

self - this calendar

pattern - format pattern

Returns:

String representation of this calendar with the given format.

Since:

1.6.0

See Also:

• DateFormat.setTimeZone(java.util.TimeZone)
• DateFormat.format(java.util.Date)
• format(java.util.Date, String)

upto

public static void upto(Date self,
 Date to,
 Closure closure)

Iterates from this date up to the given date, inclusive, incrementing by one day each time.

Parameters:

self - a Date

to - another Date to go up to

closure - the closure to call

Since:

2.2

upto

public static void upto(Calendar self,
 Calendar to,
 Closure closure)

Iterates from the date represented by this calendar up to the date represented by the given calendar, inclusive, incrementing by one day each time.

Parameters:

self - a Calendar

to - another Calendar to go up to

closure - the closure to call

Since:

2.2

downto

public static void downto(Date self,
 Date to,
 Closure closure)

Iterates from this date down to the given date, inclusive, decrementing by one day each time.

Parameters:

self - a Date

to - another Date to go down to

closure - the closure to call

Since:

2.2

downto

public static void downto(Calendar self,
 Calendar to,
 Closure closure)

Iterates from the date represented by this calendar up to the date represented by the given calendar, inclusive, incrementing by one day each time.

Parameters:

self - a Calendar

to - another Calendar to go down to

closure - the closure to call

Since:

2.2