From e59ecbc864f4b353d42db86ad84591cb63176017 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Syed Ali Raza <ali_raza995@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2017 10:47:10 +0500
Subject: [PATCH] BAEL-924: How to get all LocalDates between two dates?
 (#2012)

---
 .../java/com/baeldung/java9/time/TimeApi.java | 44 +++++++++++++
 .../com/baeldung/java9/time/TimeApiTest.java  | 66 +++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 110 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 core-java-9/src/main/java/com/baeldung/java9/time/TimeApi.java
 create mode 100644 core-java-9/src/test/java/com/baeldung/java9/time/TimeApiTest.java

diff --git a/core-java-9/src/main/java/com/baeldung/java9/time/TimeApi.java b/core-java-9/src/main/java/com/baeldung/java9/time/TimeApi.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9981ad0b90
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core-java-9/src/main/java/com/baeldung/java9/time/TimeApi.java
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+package com.baeldung.java9.time;
+
+import java.time.LocalDate;
+import java.time.temporal.ChronoUnit;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Calendar;
+import java.util.Date;
+import java.util.GregorianCalendar;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.stream.Collectors;
+import java.util.stream.Stream;
+
+public class TimeApi {
+
+    public static List<Date> getDatesBetweenUsingJava7(Date startDate, Date endDate) {
+        List<Date> datesInRange = new ArrayList<Date>();
+        Calendar calendar = new GregorianCalendar();
+        calendar.setTime(startDate);
+
+        Calendar endCalendar = new GregorianCalendar();
+        endCalendar.setTime(endDate);
+
+        while (calendar.before(endCalendar)) {
+            Date result = calendar.getTime();
+            datesInRange.add(result);
+            calendar.add(Calendar.DATE, 1);
+        }
+        return datesInRange;
+    }
+
+    public static List<LocalDate> getDatesBetweenUsingJava8(LocalDate startDate, LocalDate endDate) {
+        List<LocalDate> datesInRange = new ArrayList<LocalDate>();
+        long numOfDaysBetween = ChronoUnit.DAYS.between(startDate, endDate);
+        Stream.iterate(0, i -> i + 1).limit(numOfDaysBetween).forEach(i -> {
+            datesInRange.add(startDate.plusDays(i));
+        });
+        return datesInRange;
+    }
+
+    public static List<LocalDate> getDatesBetweenUsingJava9(LocalDate startDate, LocalDate endDate) {
+        return startDate.datesUntil(endDate).collect(Collectors.toList());
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/core-java-9/src/test/java/com/baeldung/java9/time/TimeApiTest.java b/core-java-9/src/test/java/com/baeldung/java9/time/TimeApiTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..186902da7c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core-java-9/src/test/java/com/baeldung/java9/time/TimeApiTest.java
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+package com.baeldung.java9.time;
+
+import java.time.LocalDate;
+import java.util.Calendar;
+import java.util.Date;
+import java.util.List;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+public class TimeApiTest {
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenGetDatesBetweenWithUsingJava7_WhenStartEndDate_thenDatesList() {
+        Date startDate = Calendar.getInstance().getTime();
+        Calendar endCalendar = Calendar.getInstance();
+        endCalendar.add(Calendar.DATE, 3);
+        Date endDate = endCalendar.getTime();
+
+        List<Date> dates = TimeApi.getDatesBetweenUsingJava7(startDate, endDate);
+        assertEquals(dates.size(), 3);
+
+        Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
+        Date date1 = calendar.getTime();
+        assertEquals(dates.get(0).getDay(), date1.getDay());
+        assertEquals(dates.get(0).getMonth(), date1.getMonth());
+        assertEquals(dates.get(0).getYear(), date1.getYear());
+
+        calendar.add(Calendar.DATE, 1);
+        Date date2 = calendar.getTime();
+        assertEquals(dates.get(1).getDay(), date2.getDay());
+        assertEquals(dates.get(1).getMonth(), date2.getMonth());
+        assertEquals(dates.get(1).getYear(), date2.getYear());
+
+        calendar.add(Calendar.DATE, 1);
+        Date date3 = calendar.getTime();
+        assertEquals(dates.get(2).getDay(), date3.getDay());
+        assertEquals(dates.get(2).getMonth(), date3.getMonth());
+        assertEquals(dates.get(2).getYear(), date3.getYear());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenGetDatesBetweenWithUsingJava8_WhenStartEndDate_thenDatesList() {
+        LocalDate startDate = LocalDate.now();
+        LocalDate endDate = LocalDate.now().plusDays(3);
+
+        List<LocalDate> dates = TimeApi.getDatesBetweenUsingJava8(startDate, endDate);
+        assertEquals(dates.size(), 3);
+        assertEquals(dates.get(0), LocalDate.now());
+        assertEquals(dates.get(1), LocalDate.now().plusDays(1));
+        assertEquals(dates.get(2), LocalDate.now().plusDays(2));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenGetDatesBetweenWithUsingJava9_WhenStartEndDate_thenDatesList() {
+        LocalDate startDate = LocalDate.now();
+        LocalDate endDate = LocalDate.now().plusDays(3);
+
+        List<LocalDate> dates = TimeApi.getDatesBetweenUsingJava9(startDate, endDate);
+        assertEquals(dates.size(), 3);
+        assertEquals(dates.get(0), LocalDate.now());
+        assertEquals(dates.get(1), LocalDate.now().plusDays(1));
+        assertEquals(dates.get(2), LocalDate.now().plusDays(2));
+    }
+
+}