How to create a DateTimeformatter with optional second arguments

Question

I am trying to create DateTimeformatterto check the following date dates:

String date1 = "2017-07-06T17:25:28";
String date2 = "2017-07-06T17:25:28.1";
String date3 = "2017-07-06T17:25:28.12";
String date4 = "2017-07-06T17:25:28.123";
String date5 = "2017-07-06T17:25:28.1234";
String date6 = "2017-07-06T17:25:28.12345";
String date7 = "2017-07-06T17:25:28.123456";
String date8 = "2017-07-06T17:25:28.";

I tried the following date time format to check the dates indicated:

public static final String DATE_TIME_FORMAT_PATTERN = "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss";
DateTimeFormatter formatter1 = new DateTimeFormatterBuilder()
                                   .appendPattern(DATE_TIME_FORMAT_PATTERN)
                                   .appendFraction(ChronoField.MICRO_OF_SECOND, 0, 6, true)
                                   .toFormatter();

It works great for all of the above dates, but as per my requirement, it should fail with java.time.format.DateTimeParseExceptionfor date8.

Note. I know that I can achieve the expected result using the following formatter:

DateTimeFormatter formatter2 = DateTimeFormatter
                       .ofPattern("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss[.SSSSSS][.SSSSS][.SSSS][.SSS][.SS][.S]");

But I wanted to know that we can achieve the expected result by changing formatter1?

To parse the date I'm using:

LocalDateTime.parse(date1, formatter1);

Answer 1

( optionalStart() optionalEnd()), , 1 6 :

String DATE_TIME_FORMAT_PATTERN = "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss";
DateTimeFormatter formatter1 = new DateTimeFormatterBuilder()
    .appendPattern(DATE_TIME_FORMAT_PATTERN)
    // optional decimal point followed by 1 to 6 digits
    .optionalStart()
    .appendPattern(".")
    .appendFraction(ChronoField.MICRO_OF_SECOND, 1, 6, false)
    .optionalEnd()
    .toFormatter();

date1 date7 a java.time.format.DateTimeParseException date8.

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:

String DATE_TIME_FORMAT_PATTERN = "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss";
DateTimeFormatter formatter1 = new DateTimeFormatterBuilder()
    .appendPattern(DATE_TIME_FORMAT_PATTERN)
    // optional decimal point followed by 1 to 6 digits
    .optionalStart()
    .appendFraction(ChronoField.MICRO_OF_SECOND, 1, 6, true)
    .optionalEnd()
    .toFormatter();

Answer 2

minWidth 1, .. .appendFraction(ChronoField.MICRO_OF_SECOND, 1, 6, true).