user input validation: date input

Tomek Młynarski :

I have a method below which asks user to provide date from they keyboard, I need to extend my code to validate if user indeed entered the data in format M/d/yyyy. If not, ask again to repeat and correct input data, how can I implement that?

    private static void extracted2(Doctor l1, Patient p1, List<Schedule> lista) {
    Scanner sc2 = new Scanner(System.in);
    System.out.println("provide data with format M/d/yyyy");

    while (true) {
        try {
            String userinput = sc2.next();
            DateTimeFormatter dateFormat = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("M/d/yyyy");
            LocalDate date = LocalDate.parse(userinput, dateFormat);
            Schedule g5 = new Schedule(5, l1, p1, date, false, false);
            lista.add(g5);
            for (Schedule x : lista) {
                System.out.println(x);
            }

        } catch (DataFormatException e) {
            System.out.println("Wrong data " + e.getMessage());
        }
    }

}
dkb :

I think you are close but here is the final solution:
Removed other logic from the code since it can be added.

Scanner sc2 = new Scanner(System.in);
        LocalDate date = null;
        boolean isValid;
        do {
            try {
                System.out.println("Provide date format M/d/yyyy");
                DateTimeFormatter dateFormat = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("M/d/yyyy");
                String userinput = sc2.next();
                date = LocalDate.parse(userinput, dateFormat);
                isValid = true;
            } catch (DateTimeParseException exception) {
                isValid = false;
            }
        } while(!isValid);
System.out.println(date);

output:

Provide date format M/d/yyyy
333
Provide date format M/d/yyyy
444
Provide date format M/d/yyyy
1/2/2020
2020-01-02

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