I have a string input of weekdays in German and need to get the next Localdate after today which corresponds to the given weekday string. If for example the input is Montag (Monday) I need the output as Localdate of 2022-05-16 which is the next Monday after today. If the input was in english I could do something like:
String input = "Monday"; LocalDate today = LocalDate.now(); LocalDate nextWeekday = today.with(TemporalAdjusters.next(DayOfWeek.valueOf(input.toUpperCase()))); System.out.println(nextWeekday);
Is there something I can do, may be using Locale, to use strings (days) given in German to get the next weekday as a Localdate? If possible without defining my own Enum? I would want to avoid doing
public enum DayOfWeekGerman {
MONTAG,
DIENSTAG,
MITTWOCH,
...
//methods & getters
}
and map them somehow to use the java.time API methods like Localdate.with...
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Answer
The classes of java.time are data classes. They do not have a locale. They happen to be English names only because the Java language itself is in English.
However, you can make a Map for looking up a DayOfWeek value from a name:
private static final Map<String, DayOfWeek> germanDaysOfWeek =
Arrays.stream(DayOfWeek.values()).collect(
Collectors.toMap(
d -> d.getDisplayName(TextStyle.FULL, Locale.GERMAN), d -> d));
{Freitag=FRIDAY, Samstag=SATURDAY, Montag=MONDAY, Mittwoch=WEDNESDAY, Donnerstag=THURSDAY, Dienstag=TUESDAY, Sonntag=SUNDAY}
Perform a lookup on that map.
String input = "Montag";
LocalDate today = LocalDate.now();
LocalDate nextWeekday = today.with(
TemporalAdjusters.next(germanDaysOfWeek.get(input)));
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2022-05-16