So, as the javadoc says, it uses localDateParser() which can parse
just the year,
I think I'd call it "non-ideal" rather than a bug. Changing it would
have knock on effects elsewhere with backwards compatibility issues,
so won't be done.
Stephen
On 30 June 2012 17:40, Nils Kilden-Pedersen <nil...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I just got bitten by this:
>
> LocalDate date = new LocalDate(System.getProperty("date"));
>
> I changed from a String to LocalDate to insure type safety.
>
> But we had some old code doing this:
>
> java -Ddate=20110503
>
> And it didn't fail because that date is apparently a valid year and
> LocalDate parsing just makes up whatever it's missing. I assume that's
> considered lenient parsing.
>
> So LocalDate became this:
>
> "20110503-01-01"
>
> Which of course is a valid date, just not the date I wanted.
>
> If it's not a bug, I think it should be. I can't see any good reason why a
> particular type, on parsing, should accept incomplete input. If this is what
> I wanted, I should have done this:
>
> LocalDate date = Years.parseYears(years).toLocalDate
>
> If that existed that is.
>
>
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