Java Get All Working Days in a year in YYYYMMDD format

JavaMan :

My Sunday challenge is to get and persist working days in a particular year to a CSV, etc file.

I have following code and the problem I am facing is : how to print dates in a specific format i.e. YYYYMMDD as the code currently prints something like Sat Jan 19 00:00:00 CET 2019.

Also, if I can exclude week-ends and generally if there is a better way to write a much shorter code in Java 8.

import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;

public class DatesInYear
{

    public static SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMdd");

    public static void main (String[] args) throws java.lang.Exception
    {

        Date dt = new Date();
        System.out.println(dt);

        List<Date> dates = printDates("20190101","20191231");


        Collections.reverse(dates);
        System.out.println(dates.size());
        for(Date date:dates)
        {
            SimpleDateFormat format1 = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMdd");
            System.out.println(format1.format(date));

        }
    }
    public static List<Date> printDates(String fromDate, String toDate)
    {
        ArrayList<Date> dates = new ArrayList<Date>();

        try {

            Calendar fromCal = Calendar.getInstance();
            fromCal.setTime(dateFormat .parse(fromDate));

            Calendar toCal = Calendar.getInstance();
            toCal.setTime(dateFormat .parse(toDate));

            while(!fromCal.after(toCal))
            {
                dates.add(fromCal.getTime());
                fromCal.add(Calendar.DATE, 1);
            }


        } catch (Exception e) {
            System.out.println(e);
        }
        return dates;
    }
}

Dave The Dane :

Here's 2 slightly different takes on your problem:

import java.time.LocalDate;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.stream.Collectors;
import java.util.stream.IntStream;

public class DatesInYear {

    public static void main(final String[] args) throws Exception {

        listWorkingDays(2020).forEach(System.out::println);
    }

    private static List<LocalDate> listWorkingDays(final int year) {

        IntStream
            .rangeClosed(1,      LocalDate.ofYearDay(year + 1, 1).minusDays(1).getDayOfYear())
            .mapToObj   (day  -> LocalDate.ofYearDay(year, day))
            .filter     (date -> date.getDayOfWeek().getValue() <= 5)
            .forEach    (System.out::println);

        return IntStream
            .rangeClosed(1,      LocalDate.ofYearDay(year + 1, 1).minusDays(1).getDayOfYear())
            .mapToObj   (day  -> LocalDate.ofYearDay(year, day))
            .filter     (date -> date.getDayOfWeek().getValue() <= 5)
            .collect    (Collectors.toList());
    }
}