[resolved] Concatenate strings to date

[Anonymous]

Hi,
Being new to TOS I'm still struggling with the beginners lack of experience. I'll be happy if somebody could help me on the following problem:
I am trying to create a date with the following values (fields) available:
month (string)
year (string)
additionally I'll add '01' for the first day of a month, since there is no need any other day in a month
In the expression editor of the tMap component the date should been assembled like this:
TalendDate.parseDate("yyyy-MM-dd",fieldYear+"-"+fieldMonth+"-01")
When I run the job I get the following error:
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java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: "1-"
at java.lang.NumberFormatException.forInputString(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Unknown Source)
at routines.system.FastDateParser$DateParser.parse(FastDateParser.java:129)
at java.text.DateFormat.parse(Unknown Source)
at routines.TalendDate.parseDate(TalendDate.java:850)
at routines.TalendDate.parseDate(TalendDate.java:808)
at rd_data_personal.lohnexp_0_1.lohnExp.tDBInput_1Process(lohnExp.java:1509)
at rd_data_personal.lohnexp_0_1.lohnExp.runJobInTOS(lohnExp.java:1963)
at rd_data_personal.lohnexp_0_1.lohnExp.main(lohnExp.java:1822)
Exception in component tMap_1
java.lang.RuntimeException: java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "2014-1-01"
at routines.TalendDate.parseDate(TalendDate.java:864)
at routines.TalendDate.parseDate(TalendDate.java:808)
at rd_data_personal.lohnexp_0_1.lohnExp.tDBInput_1Process(lohnExp.java:1509)
at rd_data_personal.lohnexp_0_1.lohnExp.runJobInTOS(lohnExp.java:1963)
at rd_data_personal.lohnexp_0_1.lohnExp.main(lohnExp.java:1822)
Caused by: java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "2014-1-01"
at java.text.DateFormat.parse(Unknown Source)
at routines.TalendDate.parseDate(TalendDate.java:850)
... 4 more
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Job lohnExp ended at 15:13 10/06/2014.

Thanks for any suggestion on how to solve this,
Felix

[Anonymous]

Hi,
u can display yours String in the console with tLogRow component or tJavaRow component with System.ou.println(fieldYear);
i guess that value of fieldYear is 1 instead of 2014

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Hi,
Your month string should have lengh of 2 characters.
So if it is less than 10 you should pad with 0 at the left before parsing the string into Date.
Here is how to padd your month with "0" when less than 10:
Integer.valueOf(fieldMonth)<10 ? "0"+fieldMonth: fieldMonth
So you use the result of this ternary expression in your parsedate function.
Regards

[Anonymous]

Thanks guys for the quick reply :-).
@sofbar: your code just did the job, it was the missing 0 in the month field.
Regards,
Felix

[Anonymous]

You are welcome Felix
BR