java - Specify the date format in XMLGregorianCalendar

Question

I want to use a Date in XMLGregorianCalendar format for sending to a web service. The web service expects information in yyyy-dd-mm format. I use the below code to create an XMLGregorianCalendar and send it to web service.

Date dob = null;
DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");

try {
    XMLGregorianCalendar date2;
    dob = df.parse("13/06/1983");

    GregorianCalendar c = new GregorianCalendar();
    c.setTimeInMillis(dob.getTime());
    date2 = DatatypeFactory.newInstance().newXMLGregorianCalendar(c);
    System.out.println(date2);
}
catch(DatatypeConfigurationException e) {
    // TODO Auto-generated catch block
    e.printStackTrace();
}
catch(ParseException e) {
    // TODO Auto-generated catch block
    e.printStackTrace();
}

Unfortunately I always get the date as 1983-06-13T00:00:00.000-04:00. Time is also getting included in the output. Is it possible to get only the date? Could you please help me?

Answer 1

you don't need to specify a "SimpleDateFormat", it's simple: You must do specify the constant "DatatypeConstants.FIELD_UNDEFINED" where you don't want to show

GregorianCalendar cal = new GregorianCalendar();
cal.setTime(new Date());
XMLGregorianCalendar xmlDate = DatatypeFactory.newInstance().newXMLGregorianCalendarDate(cal.get(Calendar.YEAR), cal.get(Calendar.MONTH)+1, cal.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH), DatatypeConstants.FIELD_UNDEFINED);